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)
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 (-) Wednesday 14th of December 1927 99 years, 1 months and 15 days ago |
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 Radical artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven born as Else Hildegard Plötz aka The Dadaist Baroness dies of gas suffocation at the age of 53 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. von Freytag-Loringhoven may have forgotten to turn the gas off, someone else may have turned it on, or it may have been an intentional act. |
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