Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 4 August 1962

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

The reactor explosion killed two of the reactor operating staff. In the emergency response that followed 134 firemen and station staff were hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome due to absorbing high doses of ionizing radiation. Of these 134 people, 28 died in the days to months afterward. Model predictions with the greatest confidence values of the eventual total death toll in the decades ahead from Chernobyl releases vary from 4.000 fatalities when solely assessing the three most contaminated former Soviet states to about 9.000 to 16.000 fatalities when assessing the total continent of Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
(26 April 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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 (-) Saturday 4th of August 1962 64 years, 4 months and 17 days ago
Mass murderer Ray Lanker dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head at the age of 14 in Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Earlier that day Lanker shot dead his 45-year-old father Ralph, his mother Virginia, his 12-year-old sister Bea and his 9-year-old brother Thomas in their Grove City home.