April 2 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Autism Awareness Day (International)
Events
- Sports HistoryNew York Mets manager Gil Hodges collapses just minutes after completing a round of golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, and dies of a heart attack
- A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
- 4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China
- Spain's death toll passes 10,000 (10003), as it posts a record single-day rise of 950 deaths
- COVID-19 PandemicBrazilian president Jair Bolsonaro downplays the COVID-19 pandemic saying "its not all its being made out to be"
- COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.
Born on this day
- Kurt Alfred AdlerAustrian therapist and writer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1997)
- Antony DornhorstBritish physician and Professor of Medicine, born in Woodford, Essex, England (d. 2003)
- Christopher FranceBritish civil servant and Permanent Secretary (Department of Health 1986-92, Ministry of Defence 1992-95), born in London (d. 2014)
Died on this day
- Henrik HarpestrængDanish botanical and medical author
- James DouglasScottish physician and anatomist, dies at 67
- Ludwig Heinrich BojanusGerman physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
- Hermann RorschachSwiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test - Rorschach test), dies at 37
- William FranklandBritish immunologist known as the "grandfather of allergy" due to his work on the pollen count, dies at 108