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

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

Purdy fired 106 rounds with a Norinco Type 56 AK-47 semi-automatic rifle in three minutes killing five predominantly Southeast Asian refugee schoolchildren and wounding 32 others before turning a Taurus PT92 pistol on himself. The victims were 9-year-old Rathanar Or, 8-year-old Ram Chun, 6-year-old Sokhim An, 8-year-old Oeun Lim and 6-year-old Thuy Tran.
(17 January 1989)

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

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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Karlshorst, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Wednesday 8th of December 1926 (+) — Historian and journalist Joachim Fest is born
Friday 20th of September 1940 (x) — Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Frau Lausche is thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder
Lausche survived.
Wednesday 4th of December 1940 (-) — Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Elfriede Franke is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder