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OCTOBER 12
1928:The iron lung is successfully used to treat an 8-year-old girl with polio at Children's Hospital in Boston. Invented by Harvard professors Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, the ventilator will save thousands of polio sufferers from respiratory failure before Jonas Salk creates a polio vaccine.
1960: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev angrily pounds his shoe
on a table at the General Assembly of the United Nations in response to
a delegate from the Philippines criticizing the Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe.
1997: Musician John Denver, famous for his ballad "Leaving on a Jet Plane," is killed when his experimental aircraft crashes near Monterey Bay, Calif. Denver was 53.
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