Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 25 July 1909

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One bullet grazed the Garfield's shoulder, and the other struck him in the back, passing the first lumbar vertebra but missing the spinal cord before coming to rest behind his pancreas. The wound was not immediately fatal for Garfield but his doctors' uncleaned and unprotected hands are said to have led to infection that caused his death on 19 September.
(2 July 1881)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 25th of July 1909 117 years, 6 months and 11 days ago
37-year-old aviation pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft in Northfall Meadow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Blériot won the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.