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

Spenkelink's last meal request was for two swigs of Jack Daniels. After the execution, unfounded rumors spread that the fighting, shouting Spenkelink was dragged to the electric chair, gagged, beaten and had his neck broken.
(25 May 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3351 births, 3899 deaths, 1122 murders, 493 disasters and 2033 other events about 5702 people in 6386 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Fürther Straße 110, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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Tuesday 15th of October 1946 (-) — Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Göring commits suicide by cyanide poisoning
In 2005 former U.S. Army Private Herbert Lee Stivers, who served in the 1st Infantry Division's 26th Infantry Regiment - the honour guard for the Nuremberg Trials - claimed he gave Göring "medicine" hidden inside a fountain pen that a German woman had asked him to smuggle into the prison.
Tuesday 19th of August 1947 (x) — SS-Gruppenführer and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Karl Brandt and 6 other Nazi doctors are sentenced to death in the 'Nürnberger Ärzteprozess'