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1890 - Born on the 3rd of March in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. He was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and humanitarian.
1915 - He joined the the No.2 Field Ambulance Medical Corps in France, where, as a stretcher-bearer, he was hit by shrapnel and spent three months recovering in an English hospital.
1935 - The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) asserts that Bethune, who joined the party, acted out of devotion to the Chinese socialist movement.
1936-1937 - As a thoracic surgeon, he travelled to Spain, aiding the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 - He traveled to China, aiding the Chinese in their war with Japan, in both cases performing battlefield surgical operations on war casualties.
1939 - He died on the 12th of November, of blood poisoning from a cut he received when performing surgery, while with the Communist Party of China's Eighth Route Army in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese War.
1990 - In March, to commemorate the centenary of his birth, Canada and China each issued two postage stamps of the same design in his honour.
1998 - He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
1915 - He joined the the No.2 Field Ambulance Medical Corps in France, where, as a stretcher-bearer, he was hit by shrapnel and spent three months recovering in an English hospital.
1935 - The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) asserts that Bethune, who joined the party, acted out of devotion to the Chinese socialist movement.
1936-1937 - As a thoracic surgeon, he travelled to Spain, aiding the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 - He traveled to China, aiding the Chinese in their war with Japan, in both cases performing battlefield surgical operations on war casualties.
1939 - He died on the 12th of November, of blood poisoning from a cut he received when performing surgery, while with the Communist Party of China's Eighth Route Army in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese War.
1990 - In March, to commemorate the centenary of his birth, Canada and China each issued two postage stamps of the same design in his honour.
1998 - He was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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