Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 June 1998

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HANOI - A 32-year-old man spoke for the first time in his life after undergoing an operation on his abcessed foot, doctors from a southern provincial hospital said yesterday. A doctor from the casualty department of Binh Dinh Provincial Hospital said that Truong Van Xa uttered his first words to describe his pain on Dec 31. Although Xa had been injected with local anaesthetic, when the operating doctor made the first incision on his infected wound, he screamed. “Oh my gosh, it’s so painful,” Xa exclaimed, according to his doctor, Truong Thi Thom who performed the operation. Xa, who until that moment had lived his life as a deaf mute, astonished the doctor by then saying “thank you doctor.”In an abandoned LandRover I took off my shoes and made an incision in my foot. The above newspaper article I left behind.
(15 January 1999)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Wednesday 24th of June 1998 28 years, 4 months and 25 days ago
31-year-old serial killer Heriberto Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in Queens, New York, New York, United States. Seda caused repeated disruptions in court, making outbursts and shouting at the judge.