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Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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

There are 3363 births, 3917 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2074 other events about 5717 people in 6421 places until today.

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Signa, Toscana, Italy.

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Wednesday 21st of August 1968 (-) — Victim of Il Mostro di Firenze Barbara Locci is shot dead with a .22 Beretta by Il Mostro di Firenze aka
In the same event, Locci's 29-year-old lover Antonio Lo Bianco was also shot dead. They were the first victims of Il Mostro.