On 31 May Holiday was taken to hospital with liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and her hospital room was raided. Holiday stayed under police guard until she died. (17 July 1959)
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Tuesday 8th of November 1949 (-) — Spiritual leader of Flemish nationalism Cyriel Verschaeve dies of a heart attack. Verschaeve was buried in Sollbad Hall, although in 1973 members of the Vlaamse Militanten Orde dug up his remains and reburied them in Flanders.