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

Baekeland became a recluse, eating all of his meals from cans and becoming obsessed with developing an immense tropical garden on his winter estate in Coconut Grove, Florida.
(23 February 1944)

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

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Musée du Louvre

Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Monday 21st of August 1911 (x) — Thief Vincenzo Peruggia steals Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Salon Carré
Peruggia wanted to bring the painting back for display in Italy "after it was stolen by Napoleon". After keeping the painting hidden in a trunk in his apartment for two years Peruggia returned to Italy with it. He kept it in his apartment in Firenze but grew impatient and was finally caught when he contacted Alfredo Geri, the owner of an art gallery in Firenze, Italy.
Sunday 30th of December 1956 (x) — Art vandal Hugo Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’
A psychiatric report on Villegas by Dr. Gouriou on 14 January 1957 found that the man was insane, heard strange voices, and had intended to murder the Argentinean dictator Juan Perón but went instead for the less well protected Mona Lisa.
Monday 8th of January 1968 (x) — the painting 'La Vierge à l'Enfant entourée des saints Innocents' by Painter Peter Paul Rubens is cut into with a knife by an unidentified mentally disturbed person