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Higgins had cancerous growths removed from his mouth in 1994 and 1996. He lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life.
(24 July 2010)

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There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Three Mile Island

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

Related events:

Wednesday 28th of March 1979 (x) — A partial nuclear meltdown of the TMI-2 reactor in Unit 2 occurs due to a loss-of-coolant accident.
Within days 140.000 people had left the area to escape the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
Friday 20th of September 2019 (x) — Unit 1 of the Nuclear Generating Station is shut down.
The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most significant accident in United States commercial nuclear energy on 28 March 1979 when TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown.