Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Portbou, Catalonia, Spain || Hotel de Francia

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

The fire was set with the intention of scaring tourists away by Héctor Escudero Aponte, José Rivera López and Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera, three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were in the middle of a labor dispute with the owners.
(31 December 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3366 births, 3930 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6431 places until today.

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Hotel de Francia

Portbou, Catalonia, Spain.

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Thursday 26th of September 1940 (-) — Philosopher Walter Benjamin commits suicide by an overdose of morphine tablets
A fierce critic of Nazism, Benjamin was on the run for the Gestapo. Benjamin wanted to cross the border into Portugal and then sail to the United States.