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

Lake had been arrested for theft four days earlier and swallowed a cyanide capsule from a secret niche in his belt buckle. When the police searched his house in Wilseyville they found pictures and videotapes depicting a career of violence, pornography and murder. His accomplice Charles Chitat Ng escaped to Canada.
(6 June 1985)

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

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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Hotel de Francia

Portbou, Catalonia, Spain.

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