Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Berlin, Berlin, Germany || Landwehrkanal

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

Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.
(13 May 1985)

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

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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

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Landwehrkanal

Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Related events:

Sunday 1st of June 1919 (x) — The body of Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg is found floating
Luxemburg had been shot dead by the by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision on 15 January 1915.
Wednesday 15th of January 1919 (-) — Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by members of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision 43-year-old Otto Runge, 30-year-old Kurt Vogel and 25-year-old Hermann Souchon
Luxemburg's body was not found until 1 June 1919.
Wednesday 13th of October 1920 (x) — Several body parts, presumed victims of Serial killer and cannibal Karl Großmann are found
Also on 15 and 18 October 1920 several body parts were found in the same area.