Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 16 August 1899

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Davis' last meal request was for ice cream. Shortly before his execution Davis also requested a cigarette – as a smoking ban was in place in Colorado prisons his request was denied. Davis was the only person to date to have been subject to the death penalty in Colorado since its reinstatement in 1977.
(13 October 1997)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 16th of August 1899 126 years ago
Chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.