Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa || Strijdom Square

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Köhler did not get away fast enough and was killed in the attack himself. 12 other people died and 211 were injured. The area affected by the bombing was the size of a football field, approximately 100 metres by 60 metres. Reconstruction from the site of the bombing indicates that it was created from a British mortar projectile manufactured in 1954.
(26 September 1980)

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

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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Strijdom Square, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Tuesday 15th of November 1988 (x) — Eight people are killed and 16 injured in a racially motivated shooting spree by Spree killer Barend Strydom .
Strydom was sentenced to death but the South African government declared a moratorium on capital punishment in 1990. He was released in 1992. The square has since been renamed Lilian Ngoyi Square.