Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 18 September 1961

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61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 18th of September 1961 65 years, 4 months and 16 days ago
Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld dies in a Douglas DC-6B plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, , Zambia. Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.