Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Cherbourg, Normandie, France

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

It was the last group of 'witches' to be executed. Clergyman Nicholas Noyes reportedly turned toward the suspended bodies of the victims and said "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there."
(22 September 1692)

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

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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

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Cherbourg, Normandie, France.

Related events:

Thursday 11th of December 1913 (+) — Actor Jean Marais is born.
Friday 12th of November 1915 (+) — Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Barthes is born.