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The first school of medicine established in Salema, Italy.
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Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath.
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First strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted
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Shoes are made for both right and left feet.
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The first dissection is performed on a human corpse by Mondino de Liuzzi that was recorded.
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First recorded regulations for midwives are made up.
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John Cabot discovers parts of North America.
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The artist Leonardo Da Vinci teamed up with a doctor by the name of Marcantonio della Torre and dissected as much as 30 males and females in 30 years while drawing their anatomy.
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Blood circulation was first described.
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Bacteria was first discovered.
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First law requiring licensed medical practitioners is created.
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Obstetrics established as a separate branch of medicine.
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer.
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Vaccination against smallpox developed.
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Diagnostic tools, such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays, invented.
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First practical anestetic, ether, is first introduced.
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Florence Nightingale became the founder of modern nursing.
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Gregor Mendel established the patterns of heredity by experimenting with pea plants and cross-breeding them.
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The Germ Theory is introduced.
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Rabies vaccine is discovered by Louis Pasteur.
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William Roentgen discovered X-rays. His first x-ray was of his wife's hand and you could see her ring on her finger.
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Major blood types are identified. O, A, B, and AB.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright are brothers and had a successful experiment with the first airplane.
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The Model-T Ford car is mass produced and available for the public.
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Marie Curie isolated radium for the first time. And died of radiation.
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First antibiotic drug, penicillin, is discovered.
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The Holocaust during World War 2, reigned by Adolf Hitler, contributed to 5,860,000 Jewish casualites.
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First successful polio vaccine is discovered.
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Birth control pill is introduced.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and died right away from a gunshot to the head.
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First successful heart transplant.
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The first cell phone was invented. The creator also placed a call to his rival with it.
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The first test-tube baby is born.
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AIDS first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Scientists cloned a sheep.
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Terrorists crash two planes into the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington DC.
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The first moon landing happens with Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
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Chinese alchemists invent gunpowder for the first time.
