29th year - N° 53 Saturday, 22 February 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 53 Saturday, 22 February 2014

22 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 118 years ago Saturday 22nd of February 1896 Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 99 years ago Monday 22nd of February 1915 The right leg of 71-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt, originally Rosine Bernardt aka The Divine Sarah is amputated because of gangrene due to an accident in 1905 in Clinique Saint-Augustin, 114 Avenue d'Ares, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10.000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity. In December 2008 the leg was found in the basement of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.

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(x) 54 years ago Monday 22nd of February 1960 134 die in Karl Marx coal mine explosion and fire in Steinkohlenwerk Karl Marx, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 46 years ago Thursday 22nd of February 1968 Patricia Docker is raped and strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Carmichael Place, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 22nd of February 1973 Over 200 die in ferry and Japanese Bombary Maru cargo ship collision in Rangoon, Yangon, Burma.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 22nd of February 2004 Probably not very obvious, but yet a homecoming from Asia party at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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