Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
"When I got to the inside doors, which is about 30 feet inside the building, I saw these big double doors, and people were stacked like cordwood. They were clear up to the top. They just kept diving out on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it wasn't dead people, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I went in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the stack, and drag them out..."
(28 May 1977)
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 (-) Monday 26th of July 1971 55 years, 5 months and 25 days ago |
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 Photographer Diane Arbus born as Diane Nemerov commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in Westbeth Artists Community, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Artist Marvin Israel found Arbus' body in the bathtub two days later. |
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