April 18 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Coma Patients' Day (Poland)
Events
- St. Andrew's Ambulance AssociationSt. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria
- Ezra Pound ReleasedA United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
- Dr. James Campbell performs the first human nerve transplant
- Nixon Suffers StrokeFormer US President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke and passes away 4 days later
- The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision
- French flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle reports over 1,000 cases of COVID-19, prompting an investigation
- Music Concert"Together At Home" virtual benefit concert for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund curated by Lady Gaga ; 6-hour pre-show streams on-line, followed by 2-hour global telecast; performers include: Andra Day, Common, The Killers, Charlie Puth , John Legend , Jennifer Hudson , Annie Lennox , and Zucchero
- Event of InterestUS Federal judge rules as "unlawful" Biden administration’s mandate that masks be worn on public transportation
Born on this day
- James McCune SmithAfrican-American doctor and abolitionist, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1865)
- László NémethHungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)
- George H. HitchingsAmerican medical doctor (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988), born in Hoquiam, Washington (1905-1998)
- Joseph L. GoldsteinAmerican biochemist and physician (Nobel-1985), born in Kingstree, South Carolina
Died on this day
- Erasmus DarwinEnglish physician writer and botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70
- Martha RipleyAmerican physician (born 1843)
- Vladimir SerbskyRussian psychiatrist, professor, and writer (The Forensic Psychopathology), dies of renal failure at 59