Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 March 1968

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

Train conductor Thomas Finn and engineer William Burnie failed to acknowledge a stop signal and the train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River.
(29 June 1864)

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There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 27th of March 1968 57 years ago
Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin dies in a MiG-15UTI crash while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin at the age of 34 in Kirzhach, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.