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Surgery


2000 Dr. Rene Favaloro, doctor, invented heart by-pass surgery, dies at 77

1998 Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery

1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery

1995 Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery

1995 John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches

1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain

1994 Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery

1994 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery

1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery

1993 Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery

1993 Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59

1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery

1992 Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery

1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery

1992 Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53

1992 Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery

1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery

1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee

1990 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery

1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62

1988 Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery

1988 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989

1985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery

1984 John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery

1983 Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64

1983 Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery

1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery

1979 John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery

1976 Howlin' Wolf, singer and guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65

1975 Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery

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

1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44

1967 Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66

1963 Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26

1961 Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma and Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75

1960 Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63

1952 Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery

1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery

1944 Keith Emerson, born in England, Emerson, Lake and Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery

1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery and Foules), dies at 36

1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies

1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery

1925 New York Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery

1916 Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery, University of Glasgow

1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia

1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated

1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)

1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery

1771 Ephraim McDowell, surgeon, pioneered abdominal surgery



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