Today in Medical History

April 11 in Medical History

22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Observed today

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  1. World Parkinson's DayHealth observanceWikipedia

Events

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  1. 1953Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & WelfarePublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  2. 1953US Department of Health, Education and Welfare createdPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  3. 1981Event of InterestRonald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot himNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  4. 1993450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)Public health / PolicyWikipedia
  5. 2012Buffett Diagnosed with CancerBillionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancerNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  6. 2020Brazil is the 1st country in the southern hemisphere to report more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, with 1,056 deaths and 19,638 casesDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1755James ParkinsonEnglish physician (First description of Parkinson's disease) and political activist, born in Shoreditch, London (d. 1824)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1899Percy Lavon JulianAfrican American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, born in Montgomery, Alabama (1899-1975)Medical scientistWikipedia
  3. 1904Arthur Ernest MourantBritish hematologist, born in La Hougue Bie, Jersey (d. 1994)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  4. 1913Alfred H. FreeAmerican biochemist and co-developer of the dip-and-read diabetes test, born in Bainbridge, Ohio (d. 2000)Medical scientistOnThisDay
  5. 1923Theodore Isaac RubinAmerican psychiatrist and author credited with popularising psychotherapy, born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2019)Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay
  6. 1934Anne PooleBritish chief nursing officer at the Department of Health (1982-92), birthplace unknownNurse / MidwifeOnThisDay
  7. 1942James UnderwoodEnglish pathologist and academicMedical scientistWikipedia
  8. 1955Michael CallenAmerican AIDS activist, singer-songwriter, and author, born in Rising Sun, Indiana (d. 1993)Health leader / ActivistWikipedia

Died on this day

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  1. 1895Julius Lothar MeyerGerman Chemist, dies at 64Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1992Robert HoubenBelgian politician (Minister of Public Health, 1958), dies at 86Health leader / ActivistOnThisDay
  3. 1996Edwin ClarkeBritish neurologist, medical historian,and museum keeper, dies of pancreatic cancer at 76Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  4. 2005Maurice R. HillemanAmerican microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, dies at 85Medical scientistOnThisDay
  5. 2013Hilary KoprowskiPolish virologist and immunologist who developed the first viable polio vaccine, dies at 96Medical scientistWikipedia
  6. 2017Mark WainbergCanadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (born 1945)Medical scientistWikipedia
  7. 2019Frances Swem AndersonAmerican technologist (nuclear medicine), dies at 105Dentist / Pharmacist / AlliedOnThisDay

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.