Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 October 1912

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Claude was at his apartment with an American girlfriend named Kathleen and a French secretary. In the afternoon he took a shower in preparation for a trip to the recording studio. After finishing his shower he noticed that the light bulb in the socket hanging over the shower was burned out. With his feet in the water he reached up to change it and was instantly electrocuted. Efforts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at 3:30pm.
(11 March 1978)

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Monday 14th of October 1912

112 years ago

26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt aka Teddy is shot by would-be assassin John Schrank at the age of 54 in Hotel Gilpatrick, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

The bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50 pages single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater than any Individual" which he was carrying in his jacket.