Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Île d'Yeu, Pays de la Loire, France || Fort de Pierre-Levée

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

The freight train was grossly overloaded with illegal passengers. With all the cars in the tunnel, people died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient.
(2 March 1944)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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Fort de Pierre-Levée

Île d'Yeu, Pays de la Loire, France.

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Monday 23rd of July 1951 (-) — General Philippe Pétain dies of natural causes.
In February 1973 Pétain's coffin was stolen from the Île d'Yeu cemetery by extremists who demanded that President Georges Pompidou consent to his interment in the Douaumont cemetery among the war dead. Authorities retrieved the coffin a few days later and Pétain was ceremoniously reburied with a Presidential wreath on his coffin, but on the Île d'Yeu as before.