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

Libyan Arab Airline Flight 114 was lost and entered Israeli-controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs, and was shot down after refusing to co-operate. There were six survivors.
(21 February 1973)

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

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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

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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.