Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland

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

'For four hours I lay with my head in a metal smokestack. At the other end of the smokestack stood an electrical motor that swung around a wooden stick inside the stack.'
(14 February 2016)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

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

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

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Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland.

Related events:

Thursday 24th of October 1918 (-) — Hotelier César Ritz dies of unknown causes.
Thursday 29th of August 1935 (-) — Queen consort of the Belgians Astrid of Sweden dies from her injuries sustained in a car crash.
King Leopold was driving their Packard One-Twenty convertible and Queen Astrid looking at a map. As the Queen pointed out something to her husband the car went off the road down a steep slope and slammed into a pear tree. Queen Astrid had opened her door to try to get out but she was thrown out upon impact. Her body collided with the trunk of the tree while the car slammed into a second tree. King Leopold was thrown out of the car as well but he was only lightly injured.