Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
"We went through the grass and through the fence and found John staggering around behind the sheds. He had bleeding from his head and he had been sick all over his coat."
(11 May 1968)
There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 1st of May 1960 64 years ago |
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 A Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft with 31-year-old United States Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers on board is shot down by the first of three SA-2 Guideline (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles fired by a battery commanded by Mikhail Voronov in Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to three years imprisonment and seven years hard labor but would be released two years later on 10 February 1962 during a prisoner exchange for Soviet officer Rudolf Abel. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident |
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