| 1442 | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. | |
| 1849 | The gas mask is patented by Lewis P. Haslett. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | |
| 1901 | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. | |
| 1918 | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. | |
| 1920 | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | |
| 1921 | President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp. | |
| 1926 | Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. | |
| 1931 | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. | |
| 1937 | Eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania for the first time. | |
| 1963 | Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. | |
| 1967 | The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages. | |
| 1972 | At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. | |
| 1977 | David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York. | |
| 1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. | |
| 1991 | Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years. |
More doctors are letting patients remain alert during certain surgeries, for logistical, financial and medical reasons. It's a national trend playing out in Madison...
Many patients getting hand or arm surgeries, knee or hip procedures and even some breast and urological operations have started receiving regional or local numbing shots instead of general anesthesia. That can mean a quicker recovery, less cost and fewer side effects...
A small, but growing, fraction of patients is choosing to stay completely awake, with no sedation. They're joining two groups that have long remained conscious during surgery: many women delivering babies through Cesarean sections; and certain brain patients, such as those receiving deep brain stimulation, who must be able to communicate with doctors during their procedures...
Another obstacle the study identified: Surgeons said it's more difficult to teach residents — doctors in training after medical school — if patients are awake. Plus, some patients don't like knowing that residents are participating in their procedures.
Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more than 130 winners — they’re rusting, chipping or as Agence France-Presse put it, “falling to pieces.”...Also:
Andrada didn’t go into exact details about what exactly he thought was happening, but he called it “completely normal.”.. Olympic gold medals, for example, are actually just 1.34 percent gold. The rest is made of sterling silver, ABC News reports. And about 30 percent of the silver in those thousands of medals awarded in Rio came from recycled silver...
“The most common issue is that they were dropped or mishandled and the varnish has come off and they’ve rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged,” Andrada told Reuters, adding that silver medalists have seen the most problems.
The medals for the 2020 Games will be even more unique, with the promise of being the most environmentally friendly of all time. Per The Post’s Cindy Boren, the medals are slated to be composed of recycled cellphones and small appliances donated by Japanese citizens.
