Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States || Holloman Air Force Base

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Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

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Holloman Air Force Base

Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.

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Thursday 20th of September 1951 (x) — Monkey astronaut Yorick along with 11 mouse crewmates becoms the first animal to survive a flight in an Aerobee rocket
Yorick died 2 hours after landing. Two of the mice also died after recovery. All of the deaths were thought to be related to stress from overheating in the sealed capsule in the New Mexico sun while awaiting the recovery team.