Taiping was packed to nearly twice her rated capacity carrying over 1.000 refugees fleeing advancing Chinese Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War, when she departed Shanghai on 26 January 1949 bound for Keelung, Taiwan. (27 January 1949)
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.
Friday 8th of October 1869 (-) — 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce dies of cirrhosis of the liver.
Monday 31st of December 1984 (x) — Bernhard Goetz turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train. Goetz shot them on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan on 22 December 1984.