Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Portbou, Catalonia, Spain || Hotel de Francia

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

Paulin was recognised by a policeman who remembered his description from one of his latest victims.
(1 December 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3381 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6450 places until today.

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Hotel de Francia

Portbou, Catalonia, Spain.

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Thursday 26th of September 1940 (-) — Philosopher Walter Benjamin commits suicide by an overdose of morphine tablets.
A fierce critic of Nazism, Benjamin was on the run for the Gestapo. Benjamin wanted to cross the border into Portugal and then sail to the United States.