Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Madrid, Área Metropolitana de Madrid, Spain || Prisión Provincial Carabanchel

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

Seven army ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite parked in an old railway station exploded in the early hours of the morning, destroying 41 blocks and leaving a crater 50 meters wide and 25 meters deep. The blast destroyed buildings, homes and existing businesses and killed about 4.000 people and injuring another 12.000. The cause of the explosion is unknown.
(7 August 1956)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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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Prisión Provincial Carabanchel

Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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