Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama

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

The conventional explosives aboard detonated and the nuclear payload ruptured and dispersed which resulted in radioactive contamination. Six crew members ejected safely but 27-year-old co-pilot Leonard Svitenko who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out.
(21 January 1968)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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

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Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama.

Related events:

Saturday 11th of April 1908 (+) — President of Panama José Remón Cantera is born.
Sunday 2nd of January 1955 (-) — President of Panama José Remón Cantera is fired upon at a race track by an unknown revolutionary commando with sub-machineguns.
Remón died in hospital two hours later. Two other men including one of Remón's bodyguards were also killed in the attack.