Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 May 1968

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Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. The men—who became known as the Birmingham Six—maintained their innocence and insisted police had coerced them into signing false confessions through severe physical and psychological abuse. After 16 years in prison and a lengthy campaign their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.
(21 November 1974)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 9th of May 1968 56 years ago
Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta dies of a brain tumour at the age of 75 in New York City, New York, United States.