April 29 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
- American country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
- Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
- German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America - 1st world region to do so
- Over 300 people declared to have died through overwork in Indonesia's one-day election on April 17th, with over 2,000 fallen sick
- Over 700 people infected with measles in the US, highest number for 25 years
- UK official death toll reaches 26,000 deaths from COVID-19 as care home and community deaths included
- Brazil's official COVID-19 death toll passes 400,000, with daily fatalities at 3,000, down from 4,000
- Biden Visits CarterUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visit former US President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at the Carters’ home in Plains, Georgia; Carter (96) did not attend the Biden's inauguration due to health concerns
Born on this day
- John ArbuthnotScottish mathematician and writer (Scriblerus Club), born in Inverbervie, Scotland (d. 1735)
- Ernst Freiherr von FeuchterslebenAustrian physician and philosopher, born in Vienna (d. 1849)
- Michael HeidelbergerAmerican immunologist (died 1991)
- Heinz WolffGerman-born British scientist and presenter (BBC series "The Great Egg Race"), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2017)
- Beryl BenacerrafAmerican radiologist and pioneer in using ultrasounds to diagnose fetal abnormalities, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2022)
- Alfred HuiHong Kong singer
Died on this day
- William BabingtonAnglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (born 1756)
- Aasa HelgesenNorwegian midwife (born 1877)
- J. Craig VenterAmerican biotechnologist and geneticist (involved with the first draft sequence of the human genome), dies at 79