Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Locomotive engineer Alonzo Sargent fell asleep and ran the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train into the rear of a slower circus train.
(22 June 1918)
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 (x) Wednesday 3rd of June 1998 28 years, 11 months and 24 days ago |
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 101 Die in Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen InterCity Express 884 train derailment in Eschede, Niedersachsen, Germany. The accident was caused by a single fatigue crack in one wheel which, when it finally failed, caused the train to derail at a switch. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster |
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