Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil || Casa Stefan Zweig

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

An electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161.
(29 July 1967)

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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Casa Stefan Zweig

Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Sunday 22nd of February 1942 (-) — Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal
Zweig was found the next day hand in hand with his wife Lotte Altmann, also dead.