1996 Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47
1994 Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism
1994 Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
1991 Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
1991 Frank Yerby, U.S. writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75
1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1986 Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1980 Department of Health and Human Services begins operation
1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1966 All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1964 U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
1964 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council
1953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established
1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
1948 U.N.'s World Health Organization forms
1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1948 World Health Organization forms by U.N.
1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health
1940 Anthony Fauci, U.S. health official
1939 Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund
1938 Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care
1935 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)
1934 Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health
1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health
1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1989-
1932 Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist
1931 Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85
1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory
1930 Robin Buchanan, CEO, NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth
1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president
1919 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1918 Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister, health and environment
1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan, U.S. government official, health services
1918 Otis R Bowen, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1985-89
1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1911 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1905 Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958
1904 John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
1901 Rene Jules Dubos, France, U.S. microbiologist/author, Health and Disease
1866 New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1824 Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc
1821 Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science, Science and Health
1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized
1594 Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer, Treasure of Health
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