Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Marche-les-Dames, Namur, Belgium || Rocher du Vieux Bon Dieu

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

After the first jolt of electricity failed to kill him Stephens struggled for eight minutes before a second charge finished the job. The first jolt took two minutes and there was a six minute pause so his body could cool before physicians could examine him (and declare that another jolt was needed). During that six-minute interval Stephens took 23 breaths. He was declared dead 19 minutes after the first surge of electricity hit his body.
(12 December 1984)

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Rocher du Vieux Bon Dieu

Marche-les-Dames, Namur, Belgium.

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Saturday 17th of February 1934 (-) — King of Belgium Albert I dies in a mountaineering accident while climbing alone.
Because King Albert I was an expert climber some questioned the official version of his death and suggested that the King was murdered (or even committed suicide) somewhere else and that his body had never been at Marche-les-Dames, or that it was deposited there. In 2016 DNA testing on bloodstained leaves collected from Marche-les-Dames concluded that King Albert I died at that location.