Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mingus, Charles

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Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.
(13 May 1985)

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		Musician, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus 22 April 1922 (+) is born in Nogales, United States. 5 January 1979 (-) dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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