Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)

Jonas Salk was a medical researcher and virologist who, in 1955, 
developed a vaccine against polio, considered to be the most 
frightening public health problem of the post-war U.S. In 1960 
he founded he Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, 
California and he spent his last years attempting to find a cure 
for HIV.

      
                                                                                    Tim Maguire

Edward Moran’s Unveiling of the Statue of “Liberty Enlightening
the World” (as it was originally known).  

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is 59 years old today.