Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 5 September 1988

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

The ship struck a floating mine by moonlight 40 miles off the Messina lighthouse.
(17 January 1919)

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There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2069 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 5th of September 1988 36 years ago
Student and unofficial prostitute Olga Gaevskaya dies of AIDS at the age of 29 in Leningrad, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. Gaevskaya turned to doctors in 1985 and over the next 3 years she received inoperable diagnoses 26 times for various diseases. Gaevskaya was the first official victim of aids in the USSR and she died from pneumocystic pneumonia.