Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 3 August 2008

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

A ransom note was received, demanding $17 million in exchange for Getty's safe return. When that ransom message arrived, some family members suspected the kidnapping was merely a ploy by the rebellious youngster as he had frequently joked about staging his own kidnapping to extract money from his frugal grandfather.
(10 July 1973)

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

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 3rd of August 2008 18 years, 5 months and 10 days ago
Writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn dies of heart failure at the age of 90 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.