Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 January 1989

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

All 43 passengers and crew aboard the plane died. Burke's main target was his ex-manager Ray Thomson. After boarding the plane Burke wrote a message on an airsickness bag reading: "Hi Ray. I think it's sort of ironical that we end up like this. I asked for some leniency for my family. Remember? Well, I got none and you'll get none."
(7 December 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 24th of January 1989 37 years, 10 months and 5 days ago
Raphael’s ‘La Madonna di Foligno’ is attacked with a fire-bomb by 31-year-old art vandal Thomas Lange in Musei Vaticani, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Lange was a mentally disturbed wheelchair patient.