Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 5 July 1817

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

In July Innocentius VIII fell into a fever. He was said to have been given the world's first blood transfusion by his Jewish physician Giacomo di San Genesio, who had him bathe in the blood of three 10-year-old boys. The boys subsequently died.
(25 July 1492)

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Saturday 5th of July 1817

208 years ago

Michael Christoph Gottfried is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

Michael was Gottfried's second husband.