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

Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.
(26 October 1859)

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

There are 3390 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5743 people in 6458 places until today.

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London Hill, Rayleigh, Essex, United Kingdom.

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