Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tokyo, Kantō, Japan || Akihabara

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

The Russian ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya for whom the role of Odette was intended was pulled from the première performance when a governing official in Moscow complained about her, stating that she had accepted several pieces of expensive jewelry from him only to then marry a fellow danseur and sell the pieces for cash.
(4 March 1877)

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

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

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

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Akihabara, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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Sunday 8th of June 2008 (x) — Mass murderer Tomohiro Katō drives a five-ton rented Isuzu Elf truck into a crowd at the crossing of Kanda Myōjin-dōri and Chūō-dōri streets killing three people, then climbs out of the truck and stabbs at least twelve people with a dagger.
A few days after the attack police arrested several people who stated their intention to commit copycat killings elsewhere in Japan.