2014 Event Craig Spencer, a U.S. doctor who served with Doctors Without Borders, is now in stable condition after contracting Ebola; Spencer began showing symptoms of the virus a day after commuting to various locations around New York City 2014 Event Doctors announce that a 3D-printed plastic skull was successfully used to replace part of a woman's real skull in an operation three months ago in the Dutch city of Utrecht 2012 Event Swedish doctors perform the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant on a 10-year old girl 2003 Death Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " 1993 Event Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment 1993 Event Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm 1993 Event Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease 1990 Event U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize 1986 Event Doctors at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon 1985 Event Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon 1982 Event TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run 1979 Event Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses 1963 Event Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV 1951 Birthday Kim Zimmer, Michigan, actress, Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live 1950 Event Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow 1943 Birthday Robert Walden, New York City, actor, Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors 1943 Event Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939 Event Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1936 Birthday Hector Elizondo, New York City, actor, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love 1936 Birthday Zohra Lampert, actress, Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra 1929 Birthday Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor, Doctors' Hospital 1921 Event President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
