Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 16 October 1909

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

The reactor explosion killed two of the reactor operating staff. In the emergency response that followed 134 firemen and station staff were hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome due to absorbing high doses of ionizing radiation. Of these 134 people, 28 died in the days to months afterward. Model predictions with the greatest confidence values of the eventual total death toll in the decades ahead from Chernobyl releases vary from 4.000 fatalities when solely assessing the three most contaminated former Soviet states to about 9.000 to 16.000 fatalities when assessing the total continent of Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
(26 April 1986)

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

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 (+) Saturday 16th of October 1909 117 years, 7 months and 23 days ago
Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Bethea became the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.