Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Brussel, Brabant, Belgium || A la Ville de Courtrai

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

Wood was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned.
(1 March 1953)

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

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A la Ville de Courtrai

Rue des Brasseurs 1, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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Thursday 10th of July 1873 (x) — Poet Arthur Rimbaud is shot by Paul Verlaine aka
At 9am Verlaine went to No. 11 of the Galerie de la Reine to obtain a weapon and ammunition from the gunsmith Montigny. In an English tavern located at No. 7 rue des Chartreux, he conscientiously closed a few glasses of absinthe, before finding Rimbaud at the hotel on rue des Brasseurs, where he exhibited his loaded weapon. Around noon, the two friends went to empty a few chopines at the Maison des Brasseurs located in Grand-Place and then returned to their homes. Rimbaud his decision to leave Verlaine was inevitable. Exasperated by such determination Verlaine locked the door of the room and shot at close range at Rimbaud, whom he injured his left wrist.