Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 April 1967

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

Bouyeri objected to the controversial film Submission van Gogh made from a script written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that deals with violence against women in some Islamic societies; it tells the stories of four abused Muslim women using visual shock tactics. Following the broadcast of the film both van Gogh and Hirsi Ali received death threats. Van Gogh did not take the threats seriously and refused any protection. According to Hirsi Ali he said "Nobody kills the village idiot", a term he frequently used about himself.
(2 November 2004)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 24th of April 1967 59 years, 11 months and 24 days ago
Test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov dies from from multiple blunt-force injuries sustained in his Soyuz 1 space craft at the age of 40 in Karabutak, Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Komarov became the first human to die in a space flight.