Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Sakharov, Andrei

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

51 railway wagons carrying sulfur, fertilizer, petrol and cotton wool broke loose from their siding at Abu Muslim Station and rolled down the track for about 20 kilometres until they derailed and rolled down an embankment. During the cleanup operation the cargo of the wagons exploded.
(18 February 2004)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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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		Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov 21 May 1921 (+) is born in Moscow, Russia. 22 January 1980 (x) is arrested following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 and sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky in Moscow, Russia. 14 December 1989 (-) dies of arrhythmia consequent to dilated cardiomyopathy in Moscow, Russia.
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