Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 29 December 1890

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 1991

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 29th of December 1890 136 years, 2 months and 18 days ago
Between 175 and 300 Lakota Indians are massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre