April 8 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena in USA to ban smoking
- Film & TV HistoryMichael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas
- Sports HistoryRetied American jockey Bill Shoemaker paralyzed in a car accident
- Smoking is banned in the Pentagon and all US military bases
- Sports HistoryMLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
- Saudi-backed coalition fighting Houthi fighters in Yemen calls for a ceasefire after five years to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Event of InterestDr. Anthony Fauci thanks American health workers for their sacrifice during the pandemic, acknowledging their more than 3,600 deaths
- Vatican Rejects Sex ChangeNew Vatican document rejects concept of changing a person's biological sex despite Pope Francis ' recent overtures to the Trans community
Born on this day
- Michele MercatiItalian physician and gardener, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1593)
- Ramón Emeterio BetancesPuerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat, born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (d. 1898)
- William H. WelchAmerican pathologist who founded Johns Hopkins Hospital, born in Norfolk, Connecticut (d. 1934)
- Harvey CushingAmerican neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1939)
- Elizabeth Barrett-ConnorAmerican epidemiologist and University of California professor (Living legacy award 2009), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2019)
- John HammCanadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2026)
- John ArbuthnottScottish microbiologist and academic (died 2023)
Died on this day
- Bernardino António GomesPortuguese physician and naturalist (born 1806)
- Robert BárányAustrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
- Daniel BovetSwiss-Italian pharmacologist (1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovered chemotherapeutic agents including antihistamines0, dies at 85