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

McLaren's Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner. The rear bodywork came adrift at speed making the loss of aerodynamic downforce destabilising the car, which spun, left the track and hit a bunker used as a flag station.
(2 June 1970)

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

There are 3378 births, 3945 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5735 people in 6444 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

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Friday 8th of May 1903 (-) — Painter Paul Gauguin dies of an overdose of laudanum.
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