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The Arch Street wharf along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, where the first cluster of cases was identified in August 1793 [ 1] During the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 5,000 or more people were listed in the register of deaths between August 1 and November 9. The vast majority of them died of yellow fever, making the epidemic ...
Elizabeth Benson Chew. Philadelphia portal. Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon. [1] In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. [2]
On March 30, 1981, then President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic obsession after ...
One of Peterson’s staunchest supporters in the documentary is his sister-in-law Janey Peterson, who became a lawyer in part to fight for his freedom, She tells PEOPLE that Scott's affair and his ...
In 2008, Shapiro married Mor Toledano, an Israeli medical doctor of Moroccan descent, [174] [175] and they lived in Los Angeles. [4] The couple has two daughters and two sons. [176] [177] They practice Orthodox Judaism. [178] In 2019, the FBI arrested a man from Washington for making death threats against Shapiro and his family. [179] [180]
Kermit Barron Gosnell (born February 9, 1941) is an American former abortion doctor.He provided illegal late-term abortions at his clinic in West Philadelphia.Gosnell was convicted of the murders of three infants who were born alive after using drugs to induce labor, the manslaughter of one woman during an abortion procedure, and of several other abortion- and drug-related crimes.
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian ...
Doc Holliday. / 39.53944°N 107.31917°W / 39.53944; -107.31917 ( Pioneer Cemetery) John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 [citation needed] – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his ...