Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 May 1916

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After 5 minutes into the flight a bomb placed near the fuel tank exploded at 13,000 feet. Pablo Escobar of the Medellín drug cartel planned the bombing, hoping it would kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo. However Gaviria was not on the plane and would go on to become President of Colombia.
(27 November 1989)

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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 (+) Sunday 21st of May 1916 110 years, 0 months and 19 days ago
Writer Harold Robbins is born as Harold Rubin in New York City, New York, United States. Robbins later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys' home whereas in reality he was the son of well-educated Russian- and Polish-Jewish immigrants.