Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico || La Casa Azul

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

On 2 May a human thigh was discovered floating in the river to the east of the West 3rd Street bridge. A police search under the bridge found a burlap sack containing the victim's headless torso cut in to halves, another thigh and a left foot. The head and the rest of the body were never found.
(8 April 1938)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3392 births, 3956 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5745 people in 6459 places until today.

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La Casa Azul

Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Saturday 6th of July 1907 (+) — Painter Frida Kahlo is born.
Tuesday 13th of July 1954 (-) — Painter Frida Kahlo dies of pulmonary embolism.
Kahlo attempted to commit suicide a couple of times but no official autopsy was done. The last words in her diary were "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".