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

The crash killed 8 of the 13 Icelandic crew members, 5 reserve crew members and 170 mostly Indonesian Muslim pilgrims from South Borneo. There were 79 survivors, 47 without injuries.
(15 November 1978)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

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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Piqua, Kansas, United States.

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Friday 4th of October 1895 (+) — Actor, film director and stunt performer Buster Keaton is born.
Keaton acquired the nickname 'Buster' at about eighteen months of age when Harry Houdini saw the young Keaton take a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury. After the infant sat up and shook off his experience Houdini remarked "That was a real buster!"