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

Swanenburg was locked up in a correctional facility since 1885. It was established with certainty she poisoned at least 102 people with arsenic of whom 27 died.
(11 April 1915)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3361 births, 3912 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5714 people in 6416 places until today.

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

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Prison de la Bastille

IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Saturday 22nd of October 1785 (x) — Revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade begins to write his ‘120 Days of Sodom’ on a paper roll of 11cm wide and 12m long, finishing it in just 37 days
Tuesday 14th of July 1789 (x) — The storming of the Bastille to release 7 prisoners marks the beginning of the French Revolution
Ten days earlier the Marquis de Sade had been transferred from the Bastille to an asylum in Charenton.