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 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 (-) Wednesday 27th of April 1521 504 years ago |
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 Explorer Ferdinand Magellan born as Fernão de Magalhães is struck by a bamboo spear and later surrounded and finished off with other weapons during the Battle of Mactan at the age of 41 in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu, Philippines. |
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