Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama

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

The airplane had been hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia and finally crashed due to fuel exhaustion. The hijackers were Alemayehu Bekeli Belayneh, Mathias Solomon Belay and Sultan Ali Hussein. 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board, including the three hijackers, died. Many passengers died because they inflated their life jackets in the cabin, causing them to be trapped inside by the rising water. A tourist recorded a video of the crash. She said that she had begun taping because she initially believed that the 767 formed a part of an air show for tourists.
(23 November 1996)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3395 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5749 people in 6462 places until today.

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

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Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama.

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Saturday 11th of April 1908 (+) — President of Panama José Remón Cantera is born.
Sunday 2nd of January 1955 (-) — President of Panama José Remón Cantera is fired upon at a race track by an unknown revolutionary commando with sub-machineguns.
Remón died in hospital two hours later. Two other men including one of Remón's bodyguards were also killed in the attack.