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Joseph-Armand Bombardier (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf aʁmɑ̃ bɔ̃baʁdje]; April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile .
Alleged first known AIDS death in the United States Robert Lee Rayford [ 1 ] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [ 2 ] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
At the time of Ricky's death, they had broken up but remained close friends. [7] [8] Robert died of AIDS-related causes in 2000 at the age of 22. [9] Shortly thereafter, their father, Clifford Ray, attempted suicide but survived. [10] Randy Ray married in 2001 and lived in Orlando, Florida. He managed his HIV through medication. [11] He died ...
In January 1934, a blizzard prevented Joseph-Armand Bombardier from reaching the nearest hospital in time to save his two-year-old son, Yvon, who died from appendicitis complicated by peritonitis. [51] [52] Bombardier was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could "float on snow". [52]
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise ...
The death of a 28-year-old pregnant woman from an infection has been blamed on “Trump abortion bans” by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.. Amber Nicole Thurman, from Georgia ...
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.