Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France

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

Two hours before Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled apartment crouching in a closet and crying. Okada's death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism 'Yukiko Syndrome'.
(8 April 1986)

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

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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

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Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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Friday 10th of June 1836 (-) — Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies of unknown causes.
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Saturday 1st of January 1927 (+) — Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart is born.
Wednesday 17th of November 1954 (x) — Start of the trial against Presumed murderer Gaston Dominici for the Drummond murders.
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