Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 November 1944

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

The Russian ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya for whom the role of Odette was intended was pulled from the première performance when a governing official in Moscow complained about her, stating that she had accepted several pieces of expensive jewelry from him only to then marry a fellow danseur and sell the pieces for cash.
(4 March 1877)

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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 (-) Thursday 2nd of November 1944 82 years, 2 months and 27 days ago
Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster dies of strangulation at the age of 55 in Worthington, Ohio, United States. Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.