Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 February 1921

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

The 4.310-ton French vessel was carrying 76 tons of Belgian munitions from the port of Antwerpen. Thirty minutes after the first explosion, while hundreds of people were involved in a FAR-organized operation to rescue victims and secure the ship, a second even more powerful explosion occurred, resulting in many further fatalities. At the time of the explosion, Che Guevara was in a meeting in the INRA building nearby. The explosion is often attributed to the CIA who wished to overthrow the new government of Fidel Castro.
(4 March 1960)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 8th of February 1921 103 years ago Anarchy Mourned
Activist, revolutionary, scientist, geographer and philosopher Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia.