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2005 First human face transplant is performed in France

1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89

1997 Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil

1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61

1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86

1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town"

1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74

1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

1990 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies

1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1985 James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74

1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack

1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.

1984 "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 13 performances

1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances

1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England

1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)

1980 Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1979 John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91

1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director (Human Beast), dies at 84

1977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75

1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1977 Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77

1975 Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70

1974 Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old

1973 Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45

1972 U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm

1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee

1969 Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65

1969 1st human eye transplant performed

1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited

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

1967 Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker, Fat Boys-Jail House Rock

1967 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF

1963 John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54

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

1963 Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker, Human Leauge-Human

1962 Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist, Human League

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

1957 Ian Burden, S Yorks England, rock bassist, Human League-Only Human

1956 Adrian Wright, rocker, Human League-Only Human

1956 Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human League-Only Human

1955 Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human Leauge-Only Human

1955 Phillip Oakey, rocker, Human League

1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)

1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948 U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights

1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist

1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)

1944 Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79

1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1939 Nanette Newman, writer/actress, Endless Game, Of Human Bondage

1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort

1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania

1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1989-

1933 Kim Novak, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Vertigo, Of Human Bondage

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

1930 Darryl Hickman, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Human Comedy, Tea and Sympathy

1928 Desmond Morris, English zoologist, Human Ape, Body Language

1926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human, 486 kg

1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP

1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75

1918 Otis R Bowen, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1985-89

1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton, Illinois, tallest known human, 2.72 m, 8' 11.1"

1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker

1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1912 China votes for universal human rights

1909 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist

1909 Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human

1908 Bette Davis, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, famous eyes, Of Human Bondage, Jezebel

1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate

1907 Frances Dee, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Of Human Bondage

1904 Kay Johnson, Mt Vernon, New York, actress, Real Glory, Of Human Bondage

1902 Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor, Star is Born, Human Jungle

1897 Morris Ankrum, Illinois, actor, Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers

1887 John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage

1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London

1874 [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot

1870 Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum

1864 Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man

1863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17

1799 Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy

1792 Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum

1711 David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature

1710 Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet, Human Life



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