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

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)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

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