Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Guernica, Euskadi, Spain

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Of the 1309 passengers and crew on board only 150 people survived. Four other ferries sank in the same typhoon, making a total loss of life of 1430.
(26 September 1954)

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Guernica, Euskadi, Spain.

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Monday 26th of April 1937 (x) — The entire village is bombed the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria under the code name Operation Rügen .
Estimates between 150 and 1650 people were killed. The number of civilian fatalities is now set at between 170 and 300 people.