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

The IRA intended to hold the paintings to ransom in exchange for the transfer of IRA members Dolours Price and Marian Price who had been convicted of car-bombings in England. All the stolen paintings were recovered in County Cork a few weeks later.
(26 April 1974)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

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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Herstal, Liège, Belgium.

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Friday 26th of November 1926 (-) — Firearms designer John Browning dies of heart failure.
Browning died while working at the bench on a self-loading pistol design.