Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10.000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity. In December 2008 the leg was found in the basement of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.
(22 February 1915)
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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 19th of April 1882 143 years ago He Was not the Least Afraid of Death |
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 Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Robert Darwin dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 73 in Down House, Downe, Greater London, United Kingdom. Darwin's last words were "I am not the least afraid of death". |
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