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

O'Neil's last words were "I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me hanged will live to see the day when it is proved I am innocent - and it will be, some time". A few months later a dying Shellburne Falls soldier fighting the Spaniards in Cuba confessed to the murder. O'Neil became the last man to be executed in Massachussetts.
(7 January 1898)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3351 births, 3899 deaths, 1122 murders, 493 disasters and 2033 other events about 5702 people in 6387 places until today.

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

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Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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