Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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

Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".
(18 April 1957)

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

There are 3376 births, 3943 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5732 people in 6441 places until today.

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Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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