Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mount Everest, Sagarmatha, Nepal

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

The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.
(24 June 2002)

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

There are 3376 births, 3943 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5732 people in 6441 places until today.

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

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Mount Everest, Sagarmatha, Nepal.

Related events:

Friday 29th of May 1953 (x) — Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkey are the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit.
Hillary and Norgay were part of the ninth British expedition to Mount Everest.
Friday 16th of May 1975 (x) — Mountaineer Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit.