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

The ship was en route from Ziguinchor to Dakar when it ran into a violent storm farther out to sea than it was licensed to sail. The estimated 2000 passengers aboard would have amounted to at least three times the ship's design capacity. The large numbers sleeping on-deck added further instability. Only 64 passengers survived.
(26 September 2002)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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

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Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Related events:

Friday 15th of September 1950 (-) — Child trafficker Georgia Tann dies of uterine cancer.
Tann is estimated to have stolen and sold over 5.000 children while she was workings as the Executive Secretary at the Shelby County branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society.
Monday 6th of June 1966 (x) — American Civil Rights Movement figure James Meredith is shot at by Aubrey James Norvell in an assassination attempt during the civil rights March Against Fear.
Thursday 14th of August 1969 (-) — Victim of George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer Roy Dumas is strangled by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer.
Friday 29th of August 1969 (-) — Victim of George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer.
Thursday 11th of August 2005 (x) — School shooter Mitchell Johnson is released from prison after serving 7 years.