Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, was born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaws region of North and South Carolina, to Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier. He was the first U.S. President who was not born into a rich family. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army defeating the Creek Indians at the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend and becoming a national hero after and routing the British a year later at the Battle of New Orleans.
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English physician and epidemiologist
John Snow was born on March 15, 1813 in York, England. A pioneer of medical hygiene, Snow traced the source of a cholera outbreak to a public water pump in Broad Street, Soho, London. After the local council disabled the well pump it ended the outbreak. The adoption of Snow's recommended sanitary precautions such as boiling all drinking water eliminated cholera from entire communities in England.
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