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

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

23-year-old Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped the massacre, she identified Speck due to the 'Born to Raise Hell' tattoo on his forearm. Photographs of the eight nurses were the basis of 'Eight Student Nurses', a 1966 painting series by Gerhard Richter.
(14 July 1966)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3347 births, 3887 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2023 other events about 5697 people in 6344 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.