Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)
There are 3366 births, 3926 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 17th of April 1790 235 years ago |
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 Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin aka The First American dies of a pleuritic attack at the age of 85 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. |
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