To Americans and the French, a billion means a thousand millions (1,000,000,000, or 10 to the ninth, what some British call a milliard, a term that seems never to have been widely accepted).
According to Anglo history, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery on January 27, 1596, aged 55 while anchored off the coast of Puerto Bello, Panama after an unsuccessful campaig â¦ n against the Spanish. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin, near Puerto Bello.
Actress Betsy Drake, Third Wife of Cary Grant, Dies at 92. Betsy Drake, who famously married actor Cary Grant and starred opposite him in the films Every Girl Should Be Married and Room for One More, has died at the age of 92, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Drake died in her London home on Oct. 27, a friend of the late actress confirmed.