Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 May 1904

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

The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.
(24 June 2002)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 1st of May 1904 122 years, 8 months and 29 days ago
Composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák dies of attack of influenza at the age of 63 in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.