Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Lincoln, Nebraska, United States || S 24th Street 2843

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

The 4.310-ton French vessel was carrying 76 tons of Belgian munitions from the port of Antwerpen. Thirty minutes after the first explosion, while hundreds of people were involved in a FAR-organized operation to rescue victims and secure the ship, a second even more powerful explosion occurred, resulting in many further fatalities. At the time of the explosion, Che Guevara was in a meeting in the INRA building nearby. The explosion is often attributed to the CIA who wished to overthrow the new government of Fidel Castro.
(4 March 1960)

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

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

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S 24th Street 2843, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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Tuesday 28th of January 1958 (-) — Victim of Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Chester Ward is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red.
Both 50-year-old Clara Olson Ward and 51-year-old maid Ludmila Lilyan Fencl were already murdered earlier that day by stabbing. Starkweather also snapped the neck of the family dog Suzy.