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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station several hours before the explosion as he returned from a meeting in China. It was suggested that the explosion might have been an assassination attempt, but South Korean intelligence services believed that it was an accident. The Red Cross reported that 1.850 houses and buildings had been destroyed and another 6.350 had been damaged.
(22 April 2004)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3395 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5749 people in 6462 places until today.

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

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Sunday 23rd of April 1775 (+) — Romantic landscape painter William Turner is born.
It is generally believed Turner was born between late April and early May. Turner himself claimed he was born on 23 April but there is no proof.