Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain || Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes

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

While the Simpletones played their music I laid out lines of gunpowder on the floor and on the wall I wrote: “This week I was beaten up for love”. Then I stood on a tottering heap of bricks tied with ropes on my hands and neck. The gunpowder was ignited. While the Simpletones played their music fast I pulled a heavy stone across the floor drawing an eternity-sign. After 20 minutes someone threw a glass of beer over a power-supply and we were cut off.
(27 September 1980)

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

There are 3367 births, 3931 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5725 people in 6432 places until today.

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Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Monday 7th of June 1926 (x) — While taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession, Architect Antoni Gaudí is struck by a passing tram and remains unconscious
Assumed to be a beggar because of his lack of identity documents and shabby clothing, the unconscious Gaudí did not receive immediate aid. Eventually a police officer transported him in a taxi to the Santa Creu Hospital where he received rudimentary care. He died on 10 June 1926.