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Q. Why are cellphone numbers now being released to telemarketers? A. They aren’t, so don’t believe those e-mail warnings.
I hemorrhaged after my son’s birth and was given a blood transfusion. In 1970, the blood supply was not tested like it is today.
NOVEMBER 29, 1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1944: Alfred Blalock, aided by research and surgical technician Vivien Thomas, performs the first successful heart operation on a child with “blue baby syndrome.”
1947: Arab delegates walk out of the U.N. General Assembly after it resolves to split Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state.
Chief Justice Earl Warren and commission.
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"Well, this is pretty scary. On Saturday, there was a—this is what the news said—a slight radiation leak at Three Mile Island. They said a slight radiation leak, nothing to worry about. Although neighbors...are sleeping with one eye open. Yeah, the third eye in the middle of their head."— Jay Leno