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100 years anniversary | ||||
14 Jun 1924 | Solouchin: Writer | |||
14 Jun 1924 | WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany, New York | |||
14 Jun 1924 | James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | |||
14 Jun 1924 | WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY | |||
14 Jun 1924 |
birth Sir James Black Born 14 Jun 1924; died 22 Mar 2010 at age 85. Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish pharmacologist who (along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his development of two important drugs, propranolol and cimetidine. Propranolol was the first clinically useful beta-receptorblocking drug (1964). This type of drug is now being used in the treatment of coronary heart disease (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction) and hypertension. In 1972 Black characterized a new group of histamine receptors, H2-receptors, and subsequently developed the first clinically useful H2-receptorantagonist, cimetidine (Tagamet). This introduced a new principle in the treatment of peptic ulcer. |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
14 Jun 1949 | Bob Frankston: Programmer (VisiCalc) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Rochelle Firestone: Kansas City, Missouri -- Actress (Hellhole) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor | |||
14 Jun 1949 | WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Jim Lea, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Slade) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Antony Sher, South African-English actor, director, and screenwriter | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Harry Turtledove, American author | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Alan White, English drummer (Yes, Plastic Ono Band, White, and Circa) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. | |||
14 Jun 1949 | birth Alan White, drummer, Plastic Ono Band, (1970 UK No.5 single 'Instant Karma!'), Yes, (1977 UK No.7 single 'Wonderous Stories'). | |||
14 Jun 1949 | birth birth Jim Lea, bass, piano, violin, Slade, (1971 UK No.1 single 'Coz I Luv You', plus five other UK No.1 hits and 18 UK Top 40 hit singles). | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Bob Frankston programmer (VisiCalc) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | Rochelle Firestone Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole) | |||
14 Jun 1949 | State of Vietnam formed | |||
14 Jun 1949
Rhesus Monkey |
Rhesus Monkey (astronomy and space ) Albert II, a Rhesus Monkey, becomes the first mammal in space, in a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket, reaching an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) but dying on impact after a parachute failure. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
14 Jun 1974 | Rod Payne: Corner (Cincinnati Bengals) | |||
14 Jun 1974 | Knud Christian Jeppesen: Composer, dies at 81 | |||
14 Jun 1974 | Sutan Amrull, American drag queen performer and makeup artist | |||
14 Jun 1974 | Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (d. 2009) | |||
14 Jun 1974 | Ray Stevens was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Streak' a song about the latest British craze of streaking, (running naked in a public place). |