Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 April 1882

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

On 2 May a human thigh was discovered floating in the river to the east of the West 3rd Street bridge. A police search under the bridge found a burlap sack containing the victim's headless torso cut in to halves, another thigh and a left foot. The head and the rest of the body were never found.
(8 April 1938)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 19th of April 1882 144 years, 9 months and 10 days ago
Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Robert Darwin dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 73 in Down House, Downe, Greater London, United Kingdom. Darwin's last words were "I am not the least afraid of death".