Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 March 1983

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

The miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall caused by cascading pillar failure.
(21 January 1960)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 1st of March 1983 43 years, 8 months and 14 days ago
Journalist and writer Arthur Koestler born as Kösztler Artúr commits suicide by an overdose of Tuinal barbiturates taken with alcohol at the age of 78 in 8 Montpelier Square, Kensington, London, Greater London, United States. Koestler's 55-year-old wife Cynthia Jefferies joined him in death.