Wood was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned. (1 March 1953)
There are 3390 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5743 people in 6458 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Friday 29th of July 1938 (-) — Mary Carpenter dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion. Mrs Carpenter's ignition took place in full view of her husband and children. She was engulfed in in flames and reduced to a charred corpse in minutes. No one else was burned and the boat was undamaged.