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

Buell's final meal request was for a single black unpitted olive. Buell was paying homage to to Victor Feguer, the last prisoner executed by the federal government until Timothy McVeigh. Feguer was hanged in 1963. His last meal was an olive with the pit still in it. Feguer told prison officials that he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his body – a sign of peace.
(24 September 2002)

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

There are 3390 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5743 people in 6458 places until today.

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Shima Hospital

Hiroshima, Chūgoku, Japan.

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Monday 6th of August 1945 (x) — US Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay' drops a bomb named 'Little Boy' containing about 64 kg uranium-235 .
The radius of total destruction was about 1,6 km with resulting fires across 11 square km. Some 70.000–80.000 people or around 30% of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm and another 70.000 were injured.