Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France || Clinique Esquirol

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

One year before his execution while on death row, Babbitt was awarded a Purple Heart medal for the wounds he had received at the Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam in 1968. Babbitt refused his last meal and asked that the $50 allotted be given to homeless Vietnam veterans.
(4 May 1999)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.

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

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Clinique Esquirol

Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.

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Thursday 4th of March 1948 (-) — Playwright, poet, actor and theatre director Antonin Artaud dies of a lethal dose of chloral hydrate.
Artaud was found at the foot of his bed clutching his shoe. It is unknown whether Artaud was aware of the lethality of the drug chloral hydrate.