Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 March 1980

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Gooch was the first and only person hanged for a non-murdering kidnapping under the Lindbergh Law. Oklahoma’s executioner Richard Earnest Owen was an old hand with his state’s electric chair, but the federal execution method was hanging, which Owen had never before performed (and never would again). Gooch took 15 minutes to strangle at the end of the rope for an audience of about 300.
(19 June 1936)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 26th of March 1980 46 years, 1 months and 24 days ago
Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Gérard Barthes died from chest injuries he sustained in a collision with a laundry van in the Rue des Écoles on 25 February 1980 at the age of 65 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.