Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 10 November 1974

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In 1968 Salazar suffered a brain hemorrhage and lapsed into a coma. Most sources maintain that it occurred when he fell from a chair in his summer house. In February 2009 though there were anonymous witnesses who admitted after some investigation into Salazar's best-kept secrets that he had fallen in a bath instead of from a chair. As he was expected to die shortly after his fall, President Américo Tomás replaced him with Marcello Caetano. Despite the injury Salazar lived for a further two years. When he unexpectedly recovered lucidity his intimates did not tell him he had been removed from power, instead allowing him to 'rule' in privacy until his death.
(27 July 1970)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 10th of November 1974 52 years, 9 months and 28 days ago
Judge and President of Germany’s Superior Court of Justice Günter George Richard Ernst von Drenkmann is shot dead in his house by die Rote Armee Fraktion / Bewegung 2 Juni as represaille for the death of Holger Meins at the age of 64 in Bayernallee 10-11, Westend, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. The attack on von Drenkmann had actually been part of planned kidnapping for ransom that went wrong.