April 4 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Charles G. King, University of Pittsburgh isolates Vitamin C, using adrenal samples provided by Hungarian Albert Szent-Györgyi
- Haskell Karp receives the first temporary artificial heart implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston
- King Baudouin of Belgium, a devout Catholic, steps down as monarch for 36 hours to avoid signing a bill legalizing abortion
- Music HistorySinger Gloria Estefan is released from the hospital after her tour bus accident
- Film & TV HistoryAmerican actor Tony Curtis (68) undergoes heart-bypass surgery
- Sports HistoryLA Dodger outfielder Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
- China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.
Born on this day
- Dorothea DixAmerican pioneering nurse and social activist who created the first American mental asylums, born in Hampden, Maine (1802-1887)
- John Hughlings JacksonEnglish neurologist and epilepsy researcher, born in Yorkshire, England (d. 1911)
- William Cumming RoseAmerican biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1985)
- Đặng Văn NgữVietnamese physician and academic (died 1967)
- Paul OrnsteinHungarian-American Holocaust survivor and psychoanalyst, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary (d. 2017)
- Satoshi FurukawaJapanese surgeon and astronaut
- Elizabeth Booker Houston American lawyerpublic health professional, stand‑up comedian, and political commentator.
Died on this day
- Carolus Clusius [Charles de L'Ecluse]Artois botanist, developed the tulip, potato, and chestnut for cultivation, dies at 83
- A. Dean ByrdAmerican psychologist and academic (born 1948)