Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 January 1954

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There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death: alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed. Most probably Beethoven was accidentally poisoned to death by excessive doses of lead-based treatments administered under instruction from his doctor.
(26 March 1827)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 31st of January 1954 71 years ago He Didn't Dance to the Radio
Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment at the age of 64 in New York City, New York, United States. Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute.