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

On exactly the same day that, 21 years earlier, 13-year-old Petra Giese was killed by Joachim ‘Jockel’ Kroll, the Ruhr Hunter, I sat on a chair and cut off all the clothes off my body. To my left hand a rope was tied, leading to an electric winch at the other end of the room, slowly dragging my body over the concrete floor.
(23 April 1993)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3367 births, 3931 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5725 people in 6432 places until today.

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State Hermitage Museum

St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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Saturday 15th of June 1985 (x) — Rembrandt's painting 'Danaë' is attacked by Art vandal Bronius Maigys
Maigys went into the Hermitage and headed to the Rembrandt’s painting hall, where he asked the keeper which of Rembrandt’s paintings was considered the most valuable — she replied that it was Danae, which was not for sale at all. Then Maygis went to Danae, pulled out a knife and a can of sulfuric acid from his jacket and stabbed the picture several times with a knife, falling into the thigh and abdomen of Danae.