1830 DIED: Simon "The Liberator" Bolivar, President of Colombia, age 47, leader of Latin America's struggle for independence from Spanish empire, still adored, regarded as a hero, visionary, revolutionary, and liberator
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Today's trivia: Max Born, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize winner, who coined the term 'quantum mechanics', was grandfather of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.
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December 17th 1862 - The first orthopaedic hospital was organized in New York City. It was called the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled.
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Bleedin' and Injured.
Hurt and Sufferin'.
The Dublin Hospital for the Drunk as a Skunk.
Sick and Think They're Sick.
Beaten and Shot Hospital, Dublin
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We knew him, but I swear we didn't know him:
A man has died in a cell at Monaghan Garda Station.
