Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 September 1914

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Passengers began boarding Eastland at about 6:30 am and by 7:10 am the ship had reached its capacity of 2.572 passengers. The ship was packed with many passengers standing on the open upper decks and began to list slightly to the port side. The crew attempted to stabilize the ship by admitting water to its ballast tanks to little avail. Sometime during the next 15 minutes a number of passengers rushed to the port side and at 7:28 am Eastland lurched sharply to port and then rolled completely onto its port side, coming to rest on the river bottom.
(24 July 1915)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 22nd of September 1914 112 years, 7 months and 9 days ago
50-year-old sculptor Camille Claudel is admitted in Asile d'Aliénés de Montdevergues, Montfavet, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Claudel's certificate of admittance reported that she suffered "from a systematic persecution delirium mostly based upon false interpretations and imagination". Claudel spent the last 30 years of her life at the asylum.