Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| New York City, New York, United States || Columbia Hotel

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"When I got to the inside doors, which is about 30 feet inside the building, I saw these big double doors, and people were stacked like cordwood. They were clear up to the top. They just kept diving out on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it wasn't dead people, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I went in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the stack, and drag them out..."
(28 May 1977)

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

There are 3366 births, 3927 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.

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Columbia Hotel

Times Square, New York City, New York, United States.

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