Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 24 August 1770

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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 (-) Friday 24th of August 1770 255 years ago
Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 18 in Brooke Street, Holborn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. After drinking the poison Chatterton tore into fragments whatever literary remains were at hand.