Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Warhol, Andy

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Seven army ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite parked in an old railway station exploded in the early hours of the morning, destroying 41 blocks and leaving a crater 50 meters wide and 25 meters deep. The blast destroyed buildings, homes and existing businesses and killed about 4.000 people and injuring another 12.000. The cause of the explosion is unknown.
(7 August 1956)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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		Pop artist Andy Warhol born as Andrew Warhola aka The Pope of Pop 6 August 1927 (+) is born in Pittsburgh, United States. 9 July 1962 (x) The 'Campbell's Soup Cans' exhibition by Warhol opens in Los Angeles, United States. 3 June 1968 (x) shot by Valerie Solanas aka in New York, United States. 22 February 1987 (-) dies of a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia in New York City, United States.
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