Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 February 1943

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (+) Friday 26th of February 1943 82 years ago
Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the gas chamber in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber.