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2011 Event - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Dr.John, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Neil Diamond into its Hall of Fame

2003 Death - Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72

2001 Death - Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78

2000 Death - Dr. Rene Favaloro, doctor, invented heart by-pass surgery, dies at 77

1998 Death - Dr. Jonathan Mann, AIDS expert, dies at 51

1998 Death - Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/writer, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, dies at 94

1997 Event - Dr. Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test

1997 Death - Terry Nation, writer (Dr. Who, Blake 7) at 66

1997 Event - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am

1997 Death - Barry Evans, actor (Dr. Upton-Dr. in the House), dies at 53

1996 Death - John Pertwee, actor (Dr. Who), dies at 76

1995 Death - Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82

1995 Death - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphal-St. Elsewhere), dies

1995 Death - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60

1994 Death - Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr. No, Nijinski), dies at 78

1994 Death - Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr. Who), dies of cancer at 81

1994 Event - Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides

1994 Event - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin is 1st black South African to vote

1993 Event - Dr. William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)

1992 Event - Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr. killer) clemency

1992 Event - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd

1992 Death - Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr. Faustus), dies

1992 Event - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui

1991 Event - DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood

1991 Event - Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women

1991 Death - Roy Black, German singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr. Froehlich), dies

1991 Death - Theodore Geisel, author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87

1991 Event - Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides

1990 Event - Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia

1990 Event - Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die

1990 Event - Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general

1989 Event - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M

1987 Death - Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90

1987 Death - Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr. Who-Dr. Who), dies at 56

1986 Death - Siobhan McKenna, actress (Dr. Zhivago, Hungry Hill), dies at 63

1986 Death - [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, U.S. actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies at 70

1986 Event - President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

1985 Death - Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr. Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83

1985 Event - American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele

1985 Event - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed

1984 Death - Luther Adler, actor (Dr. Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81

1984 Event - "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV

1984 Death - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr. Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72

1984 Death - Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr. Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93

1983 Death - Raymond Massey, actor (Dr. Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86

1983 Death - Marian Nixon, actress (Dr. Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78

1982 Event - Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant

1982 Death - Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53

1981 Event - Dr. George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley

1981 Event - Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr

1981 Death - Bernard Lee, actor (Fallen Idol, Dr. No), dies at 73

1979 Event - Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

1978 Birthday - Katherine Heigl, actress, born in Washington, D.C., actress, breakthrough role as Dr. Isobel Stevens on television show, 'Grey's Anatomy', movie's include, 'Knocked Up'

1977 Event - Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY

1977 Event - Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops

1976 Event - Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq

1976 Event - New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers

1975 Death - James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr. om Love), dies at 70

1975 Death - William Hartnell, actor (Dr. Who), dies at 67

1975 Event - "Dr. Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 5 performances

1975 Event - "Dr. Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5 performances

1974 Death - Paul Richards, actor (Dr. Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50

1974 Event - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets

1974 Death - Howard St. John, actor (Investigator, Dr. Lewis-Hank), dies at 68

1973 Death - Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr. Who), dies at 55

1973 Event - Dr. Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 and peaks at #6

1971 Event - Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1971 Birthday - Noah Wyle, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Dr. John Carter-ER

1971 Event - Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is

1968 Event - Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ

1968 Event - 1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains)

1968 Event - Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ

1968 Birthday - Brandon Douglas, born in Oklahoma City, actor, Dr. Quinn, Father's Homecoming

1968 Event - Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation

1968 Event - Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1967 Event - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa)

1967 Birthday - Sherry Strinfield, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, actress, known for role as Dr. Susan Lewis on medical television drama, ER

1966 Event - Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS

1966 Event - Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury

1966 Event - Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president

1965 Event - Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres

1965 Death - Reginald Beckwith, actor and writer (39 Steps, Dr. in Love), dies at 56

1965 Birthday - Dr. Dre, born in Compton, California, born Andre Romelle Young, rap singer, record producer, record executive, actor, CEO, Aftermath Entertainment

1965 Death - Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73

1964 Event - Principal filming of "Dr. Zhivago," begins

1964 Event - Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire

1964 Death - Robert Burton, actor (Dr. Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69

1964 Birthday - Peter Berg, born in New York City, New York, actor, film director, producer, known for role as Dr. Billy Kronk on television medical drama 'Chicago Hope', directed films 'The Kingdom', 'Hancock'

1964 Event - Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," premieres

1963 Event - "Dr. No" premieres in U.S.

1963 Birthday - Brian Tochi, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dr. Alan Poe-St. Elsewhere, Renegades

1963 Event - Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

1962 Event - Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1962 Birthday - Rob Morrow, New Rochelle, New York, actor, Dr. Fleishman-Northern Exposure

1962 Event - Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid

1962 Birthday - Eriq La Salle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Dr. Peter Benton-ER

1962 Birthday - Anthony Edwards, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, It Takes Two, Dr. Greene-ER

1962 Birthday - Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker, Dr. and Medics-Laughing at Pieces

1962 Birthday - Thomas Gibson, actor, Dr. Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope

1962 Event - Shooting begins on "Dr. No"

1962 Event - Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ

1961 Event - Dr. Ruth marries Fred Westheimer

1961 Birthday - George Clooney, Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Dr. Douglas Ross-ER, Batman

1961 Death - Nita Naldi, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies of heart attack at 63

1960 Event - Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast

1960 Event - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series

1960 Event - Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City

1960 Death - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70

1960 Birthday - Russell Todd, born in Troy, New York, actor, Dr. Jamie Frame-Another World

1959 Birthday - Paul McGann, born in Liverpool, England, actor, breakout role in BBC's The Monocled Mutineer, appeared as Eighth Doctor in 1996 television movie, Dr. Who

1959 Event - Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)

1959 Birthday - Hugh Laurie, born in Oxford, England, James Hugh Calum Laurie, actor, writer, musician, comedian, comedy partner, Stephen Fry, known for the Fry and Laurie double act, appears in successful Fox television drama House, playing role of Dr. Gregory House

1958 Event - TV soap "Young Dr. Malone" debuts

1958 Birthday - Nikki Sixx, born in San Jose, California, musician, songwriter, member, Motley Crue, plays hard rock, heavy metal genres, wrote, most successful album 'Dr. Feelgood'

1958 Event - Dr. F. Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram

1958 Event - Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm

1958 Death - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr. (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78

1957 Event - New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes

1957 Death - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr. Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72

1956 Event - Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1956 Birthday - Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut

1955 Birthday - Howie Mandel, born in Toronto, Canada, comedian, Dr. Wayne Fiscus-St. Elsewhere

1955 Death - Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1955 Event - Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine

1954 Birthday - Denzel Washington, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actor, Dr. Chandler-St. Elsewhere

1954 Event - Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)

1954 Death - Lionel Barrymore, Blythe, actor (Dr. Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76

1954 Event - Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer

1954 Event - Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit

1953 Event - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1953 Death - Nigel Bruce, actor Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes', dies at 58

1953 Event - Dr. Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio

1953 Birthday - Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year

1953 Event - Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State

1952 Event - Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery

1951 Birthday - Mark Harmon, born in Burbank, California, actor, Dr. Caldwell-St. Elsewhere

1951 Event - Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor at Murray Hill, New Jersey

1951 Birthday - Peter Davison, actor, Dr. Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three

1951 Birthday - Jane Seymour, Joyce Frankenberg, England, actress, Dr. Quinn

1950 Event - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Birthday - Phil McGraw, born in Vinita, Oklahoma, television personality, former psychologist, host of 'Dr. Phil' television program, earned $80 million in 2009

1950 Event - New York City hires Dr. Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"

1949 Birthday - Nigel Havers, English actor, Dr. Latimer-Don't Wait Up

1949 Birthday - Dennis Locorriere, Union City, New Jersey, rock guitarist, Dr. Hook

1949 Birthday - Denny Albee, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actor, Dr. Janssen-One Life to Live

1949 Birthday - Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

1948 Event - Dr. Frank G Back (New York City) patents lens to provide zoom effects

1948 Event - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)

1948 Event - Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"

1947 Event - Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes

1946 Event - Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published

1946 Birthday - Simon Williams, U.S., actor, Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu

1946 Death - George Arliss, actor and writer (Dr. Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77

1945 Birthday - G. W. Bailey, Port Arthur, Texas, actor, Dr. Beale-St. Elsewhere

1945 Birthday - Rik Elswit, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show-In the Right Place

1944 Birthday - Geraldine Chaplin, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Dr. Zhivago, 3 Musketeers

1944 Birthday - Janice Garfat, rocker, Dr. Hook

1943 Event - Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr. Ribar

1943 Birthday - Barry Evans, actor, Dr. Upton-Dr. in the House, Mind Your Language

1943 Birthday - Colin Baker, actor, Dr. Who, Swallows and Amazons

1943 Event - In Dr. Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkuhn

1943 Event - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus

1943 Death - Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary), dies at 50

1942 Birthday - Jay David, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show

1942 Birthday - Edy Williams, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actress, Dr. Minx

1942 Birthday - Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker, Dr. Hook

1941 Birthday - Martine Beswicke, Jamacia, actress, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

1941 Birthday - Julie Christie, born in Assam, India, actress, Dr. Zhivago

1940 Birthday - Jenny Linden, English actress, Hedda, Dr. Who and the Daleks

1940 Birthday - Dr. John, Rebennack, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, vocalist, I Was in Right Place

1940 Birthday - James Brolin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dr. Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel

1940 Event - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr. Malone" on CBS

1940 Birthday - Rita Tushingham, born in Liverpool, England, actress, Green Eyes, Dr. Zhivago

1940 Birthday - Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor, Dr. Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class

1940 Birthday - Jud Taylor, actor, Dr. Gerson-Dr. Kildare

1939 Event - Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures

1938 Event - Dr. R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana

1938 Birthday - Larry Bryggman, Concord California, actor, Dr. John Dixon-As the World Turns

1938 Birthday - Jim McMullan, Long Beach, New York, actor, Dr. McDaniel-Ben Casey

1938 Birthday - Ronny Cox, actor/singer, Robocop, Dr. John Gideon-St. Elsewhere

1938 Birthday - George Cummings, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show

1938 Birthday - Frank Converse, actor, It's About Time, Dr. Cook's Garden, Movin' On

1937 Death - Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57

1937 Birthday - Barbara Babcock, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Dr. Quinn, Dallas, Hill St. Blues

1937 Birthday - Tom Courtenay, born in England, actor, Dresser, Dr. Zhivago, To Catch a Spy

1937 Birthday - Dr. Hook, Ray Sawyer, Ala, vocalist, Dr. Hook-When You're in Love

1935 Event - Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous

1935 Event - Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers

1934 Birthday - Ed Flanders, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor, Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere

1934 Birthday - John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert, Dr. No

1934 Birthday - Richard Chamberlain, born in Beverly Hills, California, actor, Dr. Kildare

1933 Birthday - Adrienne Corri, born in Glasgow, Scotland, actress, River, Dr. Zhivago

1933 Birthday - Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford

1932 Birthday - Omar Sharif, born in Egypt, actor, Dr. Zhivago, Top Secret

1931 Birthday - Anthony Newley, England, actor, Dr. Doolitte, Garbage Pail Kids, composer

1931 Event - Right-radical coup of Dr. Pfrimer fails in Austria

1931 Birthday - Eunice Gayson, born in London, England, actress, Dr. No, From Russia With Love

1931 Birthday - Ed Hall, Roxbury Massachusetts, actor, Dr. Bicker-Medical Center

1930 Death - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26

1930 Birthday - Terry Nation, writer, Dr. Who, Blake 7

1929 Event - Dr. Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"

1929 Event - Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx

1929 Event - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6

1929 Birthday - John S Ragin, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Dr. Astin-Quincy ME

1929 Birthday - Peter Jeffrey, actor, Dr. Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity

1928 Birthday - Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist, Dr. Ruth

1928 Birthday - Stanley Kubrick, born in Bronx, New York, director, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita

1928 Birthday - Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No

1927 Birthday - Joseph Campanella, New York City, actor, Dr. Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix

1927 Birthday - Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, and Dr. Strange

1927 Birthday - William Daniels, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Mark Craig-St. Elsewhere, 1776

1924 Birthday - Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer, Dr. Zhivago-Academy Award 1966

1924 Birthday - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago

1924 Birthday - Leo Buscaglia, born in Los Angeles, California, "Dr. Hug", psycholigist, Love

1923 Event - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney

1922 Birthday - Rex Allen, Wilcox, Arizona, cowboy singer, Dr. Baxter-Frontier Doctor

1922 Event - Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar

1922 Event - Fritz Langs "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin

1922 Death - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89

1921 Event - Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)

1921 Event - Toronto's Dr. Banting and Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin

1921 Birthday - Andries Treurnicht, Dr. No, founder, South Africa Conservative Party

1920 Birthday - DeForest Kelley, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Dr. Leonard McCoy-Star Trek

1920 Birthday - DeForest Kelley, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Dr. McCoy-Star Trek

1919 Death - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr. Rung), dies

1919 Birthday - Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor, Dr. Who, Worzel Gummidge

1919 Birthday - Slim Pickens, born in Kingsburg, California, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles

1918 Event - Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia

1918 Birthday - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor, Dr. No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables

1918 Birthday - Alan Arbus, New York City, actor, Dr. Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H

1917 Birthday - Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress, Dr. Kildaire, I've Got a Secret

1916 Birthday - Kennan Wynn, born in New York City, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor

1916 Birthday - Mort Abrahams, producer, Dr. Doolittle, Planet Of Apes

1916 Birthday - Sterling Hayden, born in New Jersey, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra

1915 Birthday - Terence Young, born in Shanghai, China, director, Dr. No, Thunderball

1914 Birthday - Jonathan Harris, actor, Dr. Zachary Smith-Lost in Space

1914 Birthday - Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor, Young Dr. Kildare, All About Eve

1914 Event - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1914 Birthday - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist

1913 Birthday - Peter Cushing, England, actor, Dracula, Star Wars, Dr. Who

1913 Birthday - Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano

1912 Birthday - Peter Bull, actor/author, Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr. Strangelove

1911 Birthday - Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor, Think Fast, Two for the Money

1910 Birthday - Hayden Rorke, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie

1908 Birthday - Lew Ayres, Minnesota, actor, All Quiet on Western Front, Dr. Kildare

1908 Event - 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago

1908 Birthday - David Lean, born in Croydon, England, director, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter

1908 Birthday - Rex Harrison, born in England, actor, My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle

1907 Event - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest

1906 Event - Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)

1905 Birthday - Charles Finney, U.S., author, Circus of Dr. Lao

1905 Birthday - Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls, New York, actor, Dr. Freeland-Ben Casey

1905 Birthday - John Dierkes, Ohio, actor, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Hanging Tree

1904 Birthday - Albert Van Dekker, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Cyclops, Beau Gesture

1904 Birthday - Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss, children's author, "Horton Hears a Who!"

1903 Birthday - Luther Adler, New York City, actor, Dr. Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist

1903 Event - Dr. Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid in New York City

1902 Birthday - Ralph Richardson, born in England, actor, Anna Karenina, Dr. Zhivago

1902 Event - Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st U.S. brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation

1900 Event - Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1900 Birthday - Ian Hunter, born in Capetown South Africa, actor, Dr. Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn

1897 Birthday - Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1897 Birthday - Frederic March, Wisconsin, actor, Dr. Jeckyll-Academy Awards 1932/1946

1896 Birthday - Raymond Massey, born in Toronto, Canada, actor, Dr. Gillespie-Dr. Kildare

1896 Event - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer

1896 Event - 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

1896 Event - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops)

1895 Event - Dr. L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg

1895 Birthday - Robert Burton, actor, Dr. Gordon-Kings Row

1895 Birthday - Nigel Bruce, born in Ensenada, Mexico, British actor, Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes'

1894 Death - Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45

1894 Event - Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr. Roux of Paris

1893 Event - Dr. Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland

1893 Event - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr. Jameson beats Ndebeles

1893 Event - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia

1893 Birthday - Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano

1893 Birthday - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Calgary

1892 Event - Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal

1892 Event - Dr. Jose Rizal forms League Filipina

1892 Event - Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube

1891 Birthday - Nell Craig, born in New Jersey, actress, Calling Dr. Kildare, Queen of Sheba

1891 Birthday - Sam Jaffe, born in New York City, actor, Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba-Ben Casey

1890 Birthday - Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, Dr. Zhivago,

1890 Birthday - Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,

1889 Event - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago

1889 Event - Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine

1887 Birthday - Reginald Owen, born in Wheathampstead, England, actor, Dr. Watson-Sherlock Holmes

1886 Birthday - Sax Rohmer, England, author, Dr. Fu Manchu

1886 Birthday - Hugh Lofting, England, writer and illustrator, Dr. Dolittle

1885 Event - Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)

1884 Birthday - Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street

1884 Birthday - Harry Sothern, actor, Dr. Huer-Buck Rogers

1882 Event - Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1882 Birthday - John Barrymore, Blythe, Philadelphia, actor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1881 Birthday - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer, Dr. Eisenbart

1881 Event - Dr. John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes

1880 Event - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out

1880 Birthday - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer, Dr. Rung

1879 Birthday - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr., crystallized vitamin A

1879 Event - Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education

1878 Birthday - Lionel Barrymore, Blythe, Philadelphia, actor, Free Soul, Dr. Kildare

1876 Birthday - Charles Halton, born in Washington D.C., actor, Dr. Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again

1875 Birthday - Emma Dunn, actress, Dr. Monica, Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway

1874 Event - Dr. Andrew T Sill, of Macon Missouri, finds science of osteopathy

1874 Event - Dr. David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton

1871 Event - Henry M. Stanley in Tanganyka say "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1869 Event - Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated

1868 Event - Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris

1865 Event - 1st class cricket debut of Dr. W. G. Grace

1863 Event - Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn

1862 Event - Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)

1862 Event - Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun

1858 Death - Richard Bright, British Dr. (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69

1856 Event - Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California

1851 Event - Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

1846 Event - Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

1846 Event - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr. Wm Morton extracts a tooth)

1845 Birthday - Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr, found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal

1842 Event - Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long

1842 Birthday - Dr. Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic

1841 Death - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53

1835 Event - Dr. Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"

1832 Birthday - John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone

1801 Birthday - Gustav T Fechner, Dr. Mises, German philosopher/physicist

1800 Event - Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox

1798 Event - Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy

1794 Event - Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife

1768 Event - 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer

1755 Event - 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary"

1744 Birthday - Elbridge Gerry, DR, 5th Vice President, Massachusetts Governor, invented gerrymandering

1721 Event - Dr. Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America

1702 Birthday - Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman

1667 Event - Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion

1564 Birthday - Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus













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