Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10.000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites. It was only in 1976 that dissident Zhores Medvedev made the nature and extent of the disaster known to the world. In 1992 a study conducted by the Soviet Institute of Biophysics found that 8.015 people had died within the preceding 32 years as a result of the accident.
(29 September 1957)
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 (x) Thursday 29th of August 1996 30 years, 6 months and 30 days ago |
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 141 Die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Operafjellet, Svalbard, Norway. The accident was the result of a series of small navigational errors causing the aircraft to be 3.7 kilometres from the approach centerline at the time of impact. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_Airlines_Flight_2801 |
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