Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 18 March 1980

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

An electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161.
(29 July 1967)

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There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 18th of March 1980 44 years ago
Social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanistic philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm dies of natural causes at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.