Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| London, Knightsbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom || Cadogan Hotel Room #118

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

Two hours before Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled apartment crouching in a closet and crying. Okada's death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism 'Yukiko Syndrome'.
(8 April 1986)

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

There are 3366 births, 3930 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6431 places until today.

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Cadogan Hotel

Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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