First successful English Channel swim in about 22 hours

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Category
Health
Place
Europe
Date
1875
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"He had completed the first successful Channel swim, unassisted and without the benefit of artificial swimming aids." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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Victorian Period
1837
1901
British Isles