Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 April 1865

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Fechter was left bleeding on the spot for over an hour in full view of western onlookers.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 26th of April 1865 159 years ago He Was the Instrument of His Punishment
Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln is tracked down and shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett in Richard H. Garrett's tobacco barn at the age of 27 in Port Royal, Virginia, United States. In Booth's pockets were found a compass, a candle, pictures of five women (actresses Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, Fannie Brown and Booth's fiancée Lucy Hale), and his diary, where he had written of Lincoln's death, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment".