Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 February 1933

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

Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 27th of February 1933 92 years ago
24-year-old communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe is arrested in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.