Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 4 May 1940

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

After sporadic firing failed to extract Bonnot from his hideout, Paris Police Chief Louis Lépine ordered the building bombed using a dynamite charge. The explosion demolished the front of the building. Barely conscious lying underneath a mattress, Bonnot was shot ten times in the upper-body before Lépine shot him non-fatally in the head. Bonnot was moved to the Hotel-Dieu hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 pm.
(28 April 1912)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 4th of May 1940 86 years, 11 months and 28 days ago
39-year-old SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Höss is installed in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.