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Magdalena Carmen Frieda Calderon is born in the "Blue House" in Coyoacán, Mexico.
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At age 6, Frida is struck with polio affecting the use of her right leg
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Frida's poem "Recuerdo [Memory]" is published by "El Universal Ilustrado". The Mexican mural movement begins.
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Frida and her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, get onto a bus to head home from school. Shortly afterwards, the bus is stuck broadside by a tram. Frida sustains multiple injuries, a broken pelvic bone, spinal column, and other severe injuries,.
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During her months of convalescence from the bus accident she begins to take painting seriously. She experiments first with watercolors and then oil.
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Kahlo joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1928,
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"I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return — Frida"
About a week after her forty-seventh birthday, Kahlo died on July 13 at her beloved Blue House. There has been some speculation regarding the nature of her death. It was reported to be caused by a pulmonary embolism, but there have also been stories about a possible suicide.
