Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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

Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.
(26 October 1859)

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

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Friday 1st of February 1974 (x) — Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is arrested.
Biggs could not be extradited because his girlfriend, nightclub dancer Raimunda de Castro, was pregnant.