Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

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

49-year-old driver Pierre Levegh struck a protective dirt berm at 200 km/h, disintegrating and igniting his car, throwing him onto the track where he was instantly killed and sending large pieces of flaming debris including the engine block and hood cartwheeling over the berm and into the packed grandstand. The momentum of the heaviest components of the car – the engine, radiator and front suspension – hurtled straight on into the crowd for almost 100 metres, crushing all in their path. The bonnet lid scythed through the air, decapitating tightly jammed spectators like a guillotine.
(11 June 1955)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.

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Thursday 7th of May 1840 (-) — Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich dies of complications from a stroke.
Thursday 22nd of July 1886 (+) — Victim of Karl Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof Marie Nitsche is born.
Saturday 22nd of September 1906 (+) — Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch is born.
Tuesday 9th of February 1932 (+) — Painter Gerhard Richter is born.
Tuesday 13th of February 1945 (x) — .
In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.