April 25 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Malaria Day
Events
- Pope-elect, the future Gregory the Great, leads a litanic procession through Rome to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore to appease divine anger amid a plague epidemic
- Freud Opens PracticeSigmund Freud opens his first neurologist practice at Rathausstrasse 7 in Vienna
- Structure of DNA PublishedFrancis Crick and James Watson 's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine
- Abortion legalized in Colorado
- More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan
- The March for Women's Lives brings over one million protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
- 38 people are killed in a psychiatric hospital fire in Ramensky, Russia
- The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination.
Born on this day
- Jean DemoorBelgian physician and physiologist, born in Etterbeek, Belgium (d. 1941)
- Kojo Tovalou HouénouBeninese lawyer and critic (died 1936)
- Werner HeydeGerman psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program, born in Forst, Germany (d. 1964)
- Godfrey Milton-ThompsonEnglish admiral and surgeon (died 2012)
- Bruce PonderEnglish geneticist and cancer researcher
- Jean PurdyBritish embryologist and nurse (pioneer in developing IVF), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1985)
- Samuel CarvalhoBritish activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England
Died on this day
- John WoodwardEnglish geologist known for his collection of fossils and physician, dies at 62
- William BeaumontAmerican surgeon and father of gastric physiology, dies at 67 (1785-1853)
- Walter TewksburyAmerican track and field athlete (Olympics, 1920 - 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), and dentist, dies at 92
- György BerencsiHungarian virologist and academic (born 1941)
- Malcom PottsBritish reproductive scientist and the first medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 90