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

The conventional explosives aboard detonated and the nuclear payload ruptured and dispersed which resulted in radioactive contamination. Six crew members ejected safely but 27-year-old co-pilot Leonard Svitenko who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out.
(21 January 1968)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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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Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.

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Sunday 27th of November 1701 (+) — Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius is born.
Saturday 25th of April 1744 (-) — Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis.
Sunday 14th of July 1918 (+) — Film director Ingmar Bergman is born.