Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France || Prison de Fresnes

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

'On 17 March 1853 Christian Andreas Doppler died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 50 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy. He was known for the Doppler Effect, the effect that produces a change in frequency or wavelength of a wave or other periodic event for an observer moving relative to its source or vice versa. 164 years later on this day I lay on the floor while a shortwave radio was tied to a rotating device, circling it to and from my head whereby there was a change in frequency and wavelength of the static noise on the radio. On the occasion of the exhibition ‘What Would I Do in Orbit?’ by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven.'
(17 March 2017)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3391 births, 3955 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5744 people in 6459 places until today.

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

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Prison de Fresnes

Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France.

Related events:

Thursday 13th of January 1944 (x) — Doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot is released from prison by the French Gestapo.
Petiot paid a bond of 100.000 Francs for his release.
Monday 15th of October 1945 (-) — French politician and collaborator Pierre Laval is executed by the firing squad.
On the morning of his execution Laval attempted to cheat the firing squad by taking poison from a vial stitched inside the lining of his jacket. The poison was so old that it was ineffective and repeated stomach-pumpings revived Laval.
Sunday 16th of April 1989 (-) — Serial killer Thierry Paulin dies of AIDS.
Paulin was hospitalized in a state of near-paralysis, suffering from both tuberculosis and meningitis.
Wednesday 17th of July 1996 (-) — Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier dies of prostate cancer.