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

At the end of the show an announcement was made that children with certain numbered tickets would be presented with a prize upon exit. At the same time entertainers began distributing gifts from the stage to the children in the stalls. Worried about missing out on the treats, many of the estimated 1.100 children in the gallery stampeded toward the staircase leading downstairs. With the compressive asphyxia of 183 children between 3 and 14 years old the disaster is the worst of its kind in British history.
(16 June 1883)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3364 births, 3919 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Alvord Desert, Oregon, United States.

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Tuesday 27th of August 2019 (-) — Race car driver and TV personality Jessi Combs dies after crashing a jet-powered high-speed race car at the speed of 841,338 km/ph
Combs was attempting to better her four-wheel land speed record. Combs's car crashed due to "a mechanical failure of the front wheel" which was "most likely caused from striking an object on the desert".