Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 August 1922

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

On the scaffold Wainwright shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.
(21 December 1875)

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There are 3364 births, 3920 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 2nd of August 1922 103 years ago
Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell dies of diabetes at the age of 75 in Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".