Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Port Royal, Surrey, Jamaica

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

The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.
(24 June 2002)

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

There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.

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Port Royal, Surrey, Jamaica.

Related events:

Saturday 7th of June 1692 (x) — Port Royal disappears into the sea in just three minutes.
A stopped pocket watch found in the harbour in 1959 indicated that it occurred around 11.43 am.
Monday 18th of November 1720 (-) — Pirate captain John Rackham is executed by hanging.
Calico Jack's body was then gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal.