Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

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

I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: “I don’t belong here”.
(25 June 1980)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

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Sunday 1st of May 1960 (x) — A Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft with United States Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers on board is shot down by the first of three SA-2 Guideline (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles fired by a battery commanded by Mikhail Voronov.
Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to three years imprisonment and seven years hard labor but would be released two years later on 10 February 1962 during a prisoner exchange for Soviet officer Rudolf Abel.