Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 July 1778

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

Officials said the riverboat Sobral Santos II was overloaded with up to 500 passengers and hundreds of tons of cargo. The accident occurred more than 700 miles up the Amazon which contains flesh-eating piranha fish, gigantic catfish and electric eels.
(19 September 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 2nd of July 1778 248 years, 10 months and 8 days ago
Philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 66 in Ermenonville, Oise, France.