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

That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."
(18 November 1978)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, California, United States.

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