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2013 Event - In Washington state, six tanks are reported to be leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; the leak has not posed an immediate health risk

2013 Event - Citing frail health, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation effective February 28, 2013; he is the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415

2013 Event - The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health

2012 Event - The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

2012 Event - Rick Majerus, the head basketball coach at Saint Louis University, announces his retirement due to health issues

2012 Event - The novel coronavirus alert is lifted by the World Health Organization after they determine the virus, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is not highly contagious

2012 Event - A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert

2012 Event - The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic

2012 Event - The Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization after an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease occurs in Quang Ngai Province

2012 Event - A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications

2011 Event - Health authorities begin slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with H5N1 is found at a poultry market in Hong Kong

2011 Event - A report claiming nearly all research on chimpanzees is scientifically unjustified causes the U.S. National Institute of Health to place a moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees

2011 Event - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs resigns over poor health issues; Tim Cook takes over as CEO

2011 Event - President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

2011 Event - The World Health Organization claims over 5 million Ethiopian are susceptible to developing cholera due to the breakout of acute watery diarrhea

2011 Event - The World Health Organization announces the E. coli strain responsible for the 2011 E.coli O104:H4 outbreak had never before been isolated from patients

2011 Event - After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans

2011 Event - A plan to prevent the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria is launched by the World Health Organization (WHO)

2010 Event - The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives

1996 Death - Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47

1994 Event - Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism

1994 Death - Federica Montseny, anarchist and Spanish minister of Health (1936), dies at 80

1991 Death - Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23

1991 Death - Frank Yerby, U.S. writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75

1989 Event - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

1987 Death - L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1956 - 1958, dies at 86

1986 Event - Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1980 Event - Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1980 Event - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

1966 Event - All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

1965 Event - President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking

1964 Birthday - Michael Johns, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, health care executive, conservative policy analyst, former federal government official for the United States

1964 Event - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages

1964 Event - U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer

1964 Event - 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health

1958 Birthday - Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1954 Birthday - Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009

1953 Event - Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

1953 Event - Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

1953 Event - Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare

1953 Event - Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

1951 Birthday - Earl Howe, born in England, British politician, Conservative, front bench member, House of Lords, Health spokesman

1950 Event - Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)

1949 Birthday - Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator

1948 Event - U.N.'s World Health Organization forms

1948 Event - Britain's National Health Service Act begins

1948 Event - World Health Organization forms by U.N.

1948 Birthday - Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health

1940 Birthday - Anthony Fauci, U.S. health official

1939 Birthday - Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund

1938 Birthday - Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care

1935 Event - 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)

1934 Birthday - Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health

1934 Birthday - Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health

1933 Birthday - Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1989 - 1993

1932 Birthday - Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist

1931 Birthday - Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85

1930 Birthday - Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory

1930 Birthday - Robin Buchanan, CEO, NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth

1930 Event - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

1927 Event - Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president

1919 Birthday - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health

1918 Birthday - Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister, health and environment

1918 Birthday - Faye Glenn Abdellan, U.S. government official, health services

1918 Birthday - Otis R Bowen, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1985 - 1989

1913 Event - Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws

1912 Event - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1911 Birthday - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health

1905 Birthday - Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958

1904 Death - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies

1901 Birthday - Rene Jules Dubos, France, U.S. microbiologist/author, Health and Disease

1866 Event - New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health

1855 Event - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine

1824 Birthday - Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc

1821 Birthday - Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science, Science and Health

1798 Event - U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized

1594 Birthday - Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer, Treasure of Health

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