Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1988

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

The radius of total destruction was about 1,6 km with resulting fires across 11 square km. Some 70.000–80.000 people or around 30% of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm and another 70.000 were injured.
(6 August 1945)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3362 births, 3913 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2074 other events about 5715 people in 6417 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 8th of May 1988 36 years ago
Writer Robert Anton Heinlein aka The Dean of Science Fiction Writers dies of emphysema and heart failure at the age of 81 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States.