The Almanac

February 23

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1954

    Children get the first Salk polio shots

    In Pittsburgh, schoolchildren began receiving Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine in the first large trial of its kind. Within two years the vaccine was proven, and one of childhood's most feared diseases was in retreat.

    Source: Wikipedia

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