Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 January 1999

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

At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10.000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites. It was only in 1976 that dissident Zhores Medvedev made the nature and extent of the disaster known to the world. In 1992 a study conducted by the Soviet Institute of Biophysics found that 8.015 people had died within the preceding 32 years as a result of the accident.
(29 September 1957)

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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) Thursday 21st of January 1999 25 years ago
44-year-old serial killer Gerald Parker aka The Bedroom Basher is sentenced to death by lethal injection plus life without possibility of parole plus 64 years in prison in Santa Ana, California, United States. In 1978 and 1979 Parker raped and murdered five women. He also attacked a sixth woman who was pregnant, she survived but her child was stillborn.