Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

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

Purdy fired 106 rounds with a Norinco Type 56 AK-47 semi-automatic rifle in three minutes killing five predominantly Southeast Asian refugee schoolchildren and wounding 32 others before turning a Taurus PT92 pistol on himself. The victims were 9-year-old Rathanar Or, 8-year-old Ram Chun, 6-year-old Sokhim An, 8-year-old Oeun Lim and 6-year-old Thuy Tran.
(17 January 1989)

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

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

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

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Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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Wednesday 24th of December 1681 (+) — Composer Georg Philipp Telemann is born.
Saturday 22nd of February 1868 (+) — Executioner Carl Gröpler is born.
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During his career as an executioner Gröpler executed 144 people, by the axe and the Guillotine.
Tuesday 12th of June 1990 (x) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Inge Viett is arrested as she walked towards the elevator in the entrance hall of the apartment block in which she lived.
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