Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 November 1918

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

Purvis died from a gunshot wound to the head fired from the pistol given to him by fellow agents when he resigned from the FBI. A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol.
(29 February 1960)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 9th of November 1918 107 years ago
Surrealist writer Guillaume Apollinaire born as Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki dies of influenza at the age of 38 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.