Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium || Heverlee

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

On 3 October 1922 her lover Frederick Bywaters stabbed her husband Percy Thompson to death. When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson.
(9 January 1923)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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Heverlee, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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