Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 7 May 1925

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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 (-) Thursday 7th of May 1925 100 years ago
Writer and revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov commits suicide by jumping from a window at the age of 46 in Lubyanka Prison, Lubyanskaya Square, Meshchansky, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. According to modern publications by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others Savinkov was killed in prison by OGPU officers.