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

The SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the SS Mont-Blanc ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District.
(6 December 1917)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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

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Basra, Basra Governorate, Iraq.

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Sunday 17th of August 2003 (x) — Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid is arrested by American forces.
al-Majid had been listed as the fifth most-wanted man in Iraq, shown as the King of Spades in the deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.