Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Colombo, Joseph

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At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10.000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites. It was only in 1976 that dissident Zhores Medvedev made the nature and extent of the disaster known to the world. In 1992 a study conducted by the Soviet Institute of Biophysics found that 8.015 people had died within the preceding 32 years as a result of the accident.
(29 September 1957)

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		Mobster and crime boss Joseph Anthony 'Joe' Colombo 16 June 1923 (+) is born in New York, United States. 28 June 1971 (x) Before thousands of stunned spectators and amid heavy police security, Colombo is shot three times in the head and neck by black street hustler Jerome Johnson in New York City, United States. 22 May 1978 (-) dies of cardiac arrest in a vegetative state after being shot in the head on 28 June 1971 in Newburgh, United States.
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