Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 May 1940

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

Pahlavi was found in bed, her body emaciated by years of anorexia, bulimia, and food intolerances. Pahlavi had more than five times the lethal dose of Seconal in her system along with a nonlethal amount of cocaine. She spent much of her last year staying at the Leonard Hotel paying £450 a night for her favourite suite.
(10 June 2001)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 20th of May 1940 85 years ago
Leader of the Verdinaso Joris Edmond Eduard Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken French partizans at the age of 46 in Kiosque d'Abbeville, Abbeville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Twenty one suspects of varying political stripe were selected and executed without trial.