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The likely cause of the sinking was portholes that were opened because of the lack of air conditioning on the vessel, which allowed water to enter Bulgaria when the captain attempted to turn the ship during stormy weather.
(11 July 2011)

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

There are 3362 births, 3913 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2074 other events about 5715 people in 6417 places until today.

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Money, Mississippi, United States.

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Sunday 28th of August 1955 (-) — Black Emmett Till lynched for offending white 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store four days before
Till was abducted and beaten and mutilated before being shot in the head and his body thrown in the Tallahatchie River. Tens of thousands attended Till's funeral or viewed his open casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers. In September 1955 an all-white jury found Carolyn's 24-year-old husband Roy Bryant and his 34-year-old half-brother John William Milam not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder.