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Medical cmmunity was excited by the prospect of a "cure" for polio, the first iron lung apeared
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The first iron lung appeared
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Roosevelt contracted polio
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Roosevelt tried waters of warm spring, Georgia
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After the first of the bd Balls, paul who had published a best selling book called Microbe Hunters
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Roosevelt was elected president
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no less than six thousand charitable balls had been organized around tha country.
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Tony Gould sent out batches to physicians to inoculate twelve thousand children
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The fund raising campaign of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysiswas in full cry
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Birthday Ball
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor the U.S.A.entered world war 2 and the country became preoccupied with the war
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The mothers March on polio asked people to leave their porch lights on as a signal
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Time megazine was reporting that some communities were afraid treat polio
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National Foundation for Infantile paralysis trial of a polio vaccine.
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Disney land opened
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Anthony Eden became prime minister of Great Britain for two years
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Martin Luther king defending the right of Rosa Parks to sit in white section of a bus in Montgomery.
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World war 2
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Polio had nearly disappeared
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Survey was done of 806 people with long term disabilities from polio.
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Albert sabin came out with his live virus vaccine
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The world health organization announced a campaign to eliminate polio by the year 2000