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Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology.She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome).
Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 – June 18, 1919) was an American physician and the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.Haiselden gained notoriety in 1915, when he refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.
Helen Woodford Ruth (October 20, 1897 – January 11, 1929) was the first wife of American baseball player Babe Ruth and the adoptive mother of his daughter Dorothy. Ruth died in a house fire in 1929, the circumstances of which sparked controversy at the time and, to an extent, remains so today.
Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) [1] was an American actress. Often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", she was the second person and first woman to win the EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award) , and the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting .
The death certificate was released on the day well-wishers were able to see the Queen’s final resting place, as Windsor Castle welcomed visitors for the first time since the monarch’s death.
Bishop Ambrose of Milan, writing in the late 4th century was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as "stable-maid" or "inn-keeper". He makes this comment a virtue, calling Helena a bona stabularia , a "good stable-maid", [ 19 ] probably to contrast her with the general suggestion of sexual laxness considered typical of that ...
A Georgia mom and her twin babies were among at least 26 killed in Hurricane Helene's devastating wake as the storm pounded the Deep South with floods, harsh winds and falling trees Friday.
In 1945, Helen Mackay was elected to the British Paediatric Association, one of the first women members. [5] She continued to work as a consultant paediatrician for the Mother's Hospital, Clapton, and Hackney Hospital until 1959. [1] On 17 July 1965 Mackay died of a stroke; she was buried three days later at the Golders Green Crematorium in ...