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On 21 March 1981 Drs. Benjamin Aaron and Joseph Giordano of the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., performed two hours of surgery on President Ronald Reagan to remove a bullet from his left lung after he was shot in the chest in an assassination attempt.

On 20 September 1984 former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was revealed to be suffering from Parkinson's syndrome, renewing the debate over the safety of boxing because doctors theorized that repeated blows to the head could damage brain cells, bringing on Parkinson's syndrome.

On 5 January 1986 Donna Ashland, a fourteen-year-old California girl who suffered from cardiomyopathy, a degeneration of the heart muscle, received a heart transplant from her fifteen-year-old boyfriend, Felipe Garcia. Garcia, who died after a blood vessel burst in his brain, had earlier told his mother of his premonition of his...

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