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

In Booth's pockets were found a compass, a candle, pictures of five women (actresses Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, Fannie Brown and Booth's fiancée Lucy Hale), and his diary, where he had written of Lincoln's death, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment".
(26 April 1865)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Cooperstown, New York, United States.

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Friday 28th of December 1827 (-) — Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging.
During Kelley's public execution a temporary wooden scaffold holding hundreds of spectators collapsed and two people were killed.