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

That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."
(18 November 1978)



There are 3381 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6450 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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