Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 August 1982

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

"When I got to the inside doors, which is about 30 feet inside the building, I saw these big double doors, and people were stacked like cordwood. They were clear up to the top. They just kept diving out on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it wasn't dead people, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I went in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the stack, and drag them out..."
(28 May 1977)

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There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 9th of August 1982 42 Years Ago
Over 250 Die in Hasrat Mulia ferry shipwreck in Strait of Macassar, Sulawesi, Sunda Islands, Indonesia. There were about 400 passengers onboard the vessel that was authorised to carry 60 people only.