Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 January 1937

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

On 7 September Markov was stabbed in the back of his right thigh with an umbrella while waiting at a bus stop on Waterloo Bridge. The pellet measured 1.70 mm in diameter and was composed of 90% platinum and 10% iridium. It had two holes with diameters of 0.35 mm drilled through it producing an X-shaped cavity. A sugary substance coated the tiny holes creating a bubble which trapped the ricin inside the cavities. The specially crafted coating was designed to melt at 37° C. After the pellet was shot into Markov the coating melted and the ricin was free to be absorbed into the bloodstream and kill him. Regardless of whether the doctors treating Markov had known that the poison was ricin the result would have been the same as there was no known antidote to ricin at the time.
(11 September 1978)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 2nd of January 1937 88 years ago
Actor Ross Alexander born as Alexander Ross Smith commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 30 in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has been reported that Alexander used the same gun his wife Aleta Freel shot herself with 13 months earlier when she found out about his homosexuality.