Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 15 October 1984

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The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.
(29 December 1876)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 15th of October 1984 42 years, 4 months and 5 days ago
Fourth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Centre Paul Hymans, 39 Rue de Naples, Ixelles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the fourth action in their Première Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d’Octobre.