Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tsugaru Strait, Hokkaidō, Japan

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

A highly flammable cloud that was ignited by sparks created by two passenger trains passing each other nearby. Both trains were carrying many children: one was returning from a holiday vacation on the Black Sea and the other was taking children there.
(4 June 1989)

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

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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Tsugaru Strait, Hokkaidō, Japan.

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Sunday 26th of September 1954 (x) — .
Of the 1309 passengers and crew on board only 150 people survived. Four other ferries sank in the same typhoon, making a total loss of life of 1430.