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

McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world".
(30 September 1902)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Texas City, Texas, United States.

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Tuesday 15th of April 1947 (x) — .
The SS Grandcamp's cargo of approximately 2.300 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated due to a fire and caused a subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities. An additional 113 people were classified as missing, for no identifiable parts were ever found.