Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
With Tim Vanhamel I made a Noise performance about ‘Thaipoosam’, a Hindi religious festival I attended in the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
(31 August 2005)
There are 3366 births, 3926 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 24th of August 1770 255 years ago |
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 Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 18 in Brooke Street, Holborn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. After drinking the poison Chatterton tore into fragments whatever literary remains were at hand. |
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