Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 5 January 1895

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

After his death Satie's friends discovered an apartment replete with squalor and chaos. Among many other unsorted papers and miscellaneous items, it contained a large number of umbrellas and two grand pianos placed one on top of the other, the upper instrument used as storage for letters and parcels.
(1 July 1925)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 5th of January 1895 131 years, 3 months and 28 days ago
36-year-old artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfus is convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana, in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.