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

A U.S. Air Force crew closed the hatches to prevent the Titan II missile inside from exploding, smothering the fire but sealing the workers inside.
(9 August 1965)

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

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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

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Tianma teahouse

Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Friday 28th of February 1947 (x) — Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team .
Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.