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The SS Grandcamp's cargo of approximately 2.300 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated due to a fire and caused a subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities. An additional 113 people were classified as missing, for no identifiable parts were ever found.
(15 April 1947)

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Via Lungo Lario Manzoni 28, Bellagio, Lombardia, Italy.

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Saturday 2nd of December 1944 (-) — Founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies of cardiac arrest.
Marinetti was in his office working on a collection of poems praising the wartime achievements of the Decima Flottiglia MAS.