Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 April 1912

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

Sheldon was drugged with sedatives and held captive in the second floor bedroom for three days, enduring forms of torture such as the swabbing of drain cleaner in his left eye, the insertion of needles beneath his fingertips, the binding of his wrists with piano wire with the intention of permanently damaging the nerves in his hands and filling his ears with caulking to reduce his hearing capacity.
(15 April 1985)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 9th of April 1912 113 years ago He Wrote Insulting Notes
Black business owner Thomas Miles is lynched by hanging from a tree and his body filled with bullets at the age of 29 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Miles had been tried in police court the day before on a charge of writing insulting notes to a white girl employed in a department store but was acquitted for lack of proof.