Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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

Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.
(26 October 1859)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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

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Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Related events:

Sunday 29th of October 1911 (-) — Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer dies of unknown causes.
Pulitzer listened to his German secretary read aloud about King Louis XI of France. As the secretary neared the end Pulitzer said: "Leise, ganz leise" and died.
Sunday 6th of February 1955 (+) — Victim of Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler Susan Hellams is born.