Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 January 2009

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

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".
(26 April 1865)

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There are 3366 births, 3926 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 27th of January 2009 16 years ago
Writer John Hoyer Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 77 in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States.
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