Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Brussel, Saint-Gilles, Brabant, Belgium || Prison de St. Gilles

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23-year-old Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped the massacre, she identified Speck due to the 'Born to Raise Hell' tattoo on his forearm. Photographs of the eight nurses were the basis of 'Eight Student Nurses', a 1966 painting series by Gerhard Richter.
(14 July 1966)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3376 births, 3943 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5732 people in 6441 places until today.

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Prison de St. Gilles

Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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Friday 3rd of January 1975 (-) — SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt dies of diabetes.
Friday 16th of September 1988 (x) — Leader of Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes Pierre Carette starts hungerstriking in a campaign to acquire the status of political prisoner.
Carette's three comrads Didier Chevolet, Bertrand Sassoye and Pascal Vandegeerde joined him.