Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 March 1831

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Van Wijnendaele killed himself after he was closed in by state police. Earlier that day he killed seven people; 90-year-old Jean Baptiste and 84-year-old Margriet Nechelput, 54-year-old Edgard, 46-year-old Liliane and 20-year-old Christian De Crem and the German Shepherd Tibo on a farm in Bogaarden, and 37-year-old Marie-Therese Walraevens and 3-year-old Ludovic De Rijck on another farm. In Denderwindeke he shot is parents-in-law, both survived.
(12 May 1987)

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

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 19th of March 1831 195 years, 10 months and 11 days ago
Edward Smith aka Edward Jones aka James Honeyman and James Murray commit what is regarded as one of the first bank thefts in the United States in City Bank of New York, Wall Street, New York City, New York, United States. The thieves made off with $245.000 using a set of copied keys.