Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Curie, Marie

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The conventional explosives aboard detonated and the nuclear payload ruptured and dispersed which resulted in radioactive contamination. Six crew members ejected safely but 27-year-old co-pilot Leonard Svitenko who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out.
(21 January 1968)

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		Physicist and chemist Marie Curie born as Maria Salomea Skłodowska known for her pioneering research on radioactivity 7 November 1867 (+) is born in Warszawa, Poland. 4 July 1934 (-) dies of aplastic anemia in Passy, France.
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