Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 January 1968

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

Smith was assaulted at the junction of Osborn Street and Brick Lane the night before. She was taken to the hospital, fell into a coma and died. Medical investigation by duty surgeon Dr G. H. Hillier revealed that a blunt object had been inserted into her vagina rupturing her peritoneum. The case was listed as the first of eleven Whitechapel murders in Metropolitan Police files.
(4 April 1888)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 8th of January 1968 57 years ago
the painting 'La Vierge à l'Enfant entourée des saints Innocents' by 391-year-old painter Peter Paul Rubens is cut into with a knife by an unidentified mentally disturbed person in Musée du Louvre, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.