Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 December 1875

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

On 2 May a human thigh was discovered floating in the river to the east of the West 3rd Street bridge. A police search under the bridge found a burlap sack containing the victim's headless torso cut in to halves, another thigh and a left foot. The head and the rest of the body were never found.
(8 April 1938)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 21st of December 1875 151 years, 5 months and 24 days ago
Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging by William Marwood in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On the scaffold Wainwright shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.