Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan || Urakami

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

Dupay told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.
(20 September 1977)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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

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Urakami, Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.

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Thursday 9th of August 1945 (x) — The US B-29 Bockscar piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney drops a bomb named 'Fat Man' containing a core of about 5 kg of plutonium.
Less than a second after the detonation the north of the city was destroyed and 35.000 people were killed. Among the deaths were 6.200 out of the 7.500 employees of the Mitsubishi Munitions plant and 24.000 others (including 2.000 Koreans) who worked in other war plants and factories in the city, as well as 150 Japanese soldiers.