2014 Event A home-based colon cancer screening test by Exact Sciences Corp. has received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; patients must receive a doctor's prescription in order to purchase the test 2008 Death Tony Snow, dies in Washington, D.C., of colon cancer, at 53 2008 Death William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer 2007 Death Betty Hutton, dies in California, complications of colon cancer, at 86 1994 Event Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed 1993 Death Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63 1993 Death Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57 1992 Death Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53 1988 Event Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico 1987 Death Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71 1987 Death Sala Burton, Representative-D-California 1983 - 1987, died of colon cancer 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 1969 Birthday Harry Colon, NFL safety, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions 1963 Death Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer 1958 Birthday Maria Caridad Colon, born in Cuba, javelin thrower, 1980 Olympics gold 1950 Birthday Willie Colon, born in born in Bronx, New York, actor, Last Flight 1934 Death Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80 1901 Death Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 1854 Birthday Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
