Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 March 1890

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Bucklew had argued for months that the death penalty would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment due to blood-filled tumours that had grown in his head, neck and throat. He argued that a tumour on his neck could burst when given lethal injection and cause him to choke on his own blood.
(1 October 2019)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 9th of March 1890 134 years ago
Politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov is born as Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin in Kukarka, Kirov Oblast, Russia. Skryabin took the pseudonym 'Molotov', derived from the Russian molot (hammer) for his political work owing to the name's vaguely 'industrial' ring.