April 24 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Benedict Menni
Events
- National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta
- WWI: German army fires chloroform gas at Canadian forces near the village of St. Julien, France
- Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine
- At least 82 COVID-19 patients die in a fire at Ibn Khatib hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, with 100 more injured
- Sports HistorySpanish tennis champion Carlos Alcaraz (22) announces a wrist injury will force him to miss the Italian Open and French Open tournaments, via social media
Born on this day
- Mimi SmithEnglish nurse (died 1991)
- Louis Keithphysician (expert on multiple-births), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Roger D. KornbergAmerican biochemist (Nobel 2006), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Eliana GilEcuadorian-American psychiatrist, therapist, and author
- Yvonne CagleAmerican astronaut and physician, born in West Point, New York
- Andrew MurrisonEnglish physician and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
Died on this day
- Ernst-Robert GrawitzGerman physician and SS officer, facilitator of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates (born 1899)
- Gerhard DomagkGerman bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine - first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), dies at 68
- Alma HeflinAmerican commercial airplane test pilot and child psychologist, dies at 89
- Nancy CoxAmerican virologist and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Influenza at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (1992-2014), dies of cancer at 77