August 11 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Parliament of Jordan forces King Talal bin Abdullah (43) to abdicate due to concerns about his mental health; Hussein bin Talal (16) is proclaimed as new King of Jordan
- Future Baseball Hall of Famer pitcher Don Drysdale , the last Los Angeles Dodger to play in Brooklyn, retires because of damage to his right pitching shoulder
- The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.
- "The Who" drummer Keith Moon collapses and is hospitalized in Miami, Florida
- Legionnaires' disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
- NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
- A heatwave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44°C), leaving approximately 144 people dead
- Largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York: 12 dead, with over 100 cases in the South Bronx
- Fipronil-contaminated eggs now affect fifteen EU countries, Hong Kong, and Switzerland, according to the European Commission
- Sputnik VPresident Vladimir Putin , in a propaganda stunt, announces Russia has become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine called "Sputnik V" despite no scientific data being published or phase 3 trials having even begun
Born on this day
- Richard MeadEnglish physician, worked on transmissible diseases, born in London, England (d. 1754)
- Richard BrocklesbyEnglish physician, Surgeon General of the British Army and friend of Samuel Johnson, born at Minehead, England (d. 1797)
- Christiaan EijkmanDutch physician and bacteriologist ( Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929), born in Nijkerk, Netherlands (1858-1930)
- Erwin ChargaffAustro-Hungarian-American Jewish biochemist, known for Chargaff's rules, born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (d. 2002)
- Aaron KlugBiochemist (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1982), born in Lithuanian (d. 2018)
- Alyson StonerAmerican mental health advocate, singer and actress (Camp Rock, Phineas and Ferb), born in Toledo, Ohio
Died on this day
- Tiphaigne de la RocheFrench fantasy writer with early sci-fi themes ("Zamar, Delegated to the Moon by Amilec"), dies at 52
- Marshall HallEnglish physician, physiologist and early neurologist (physiology of reflex function), dies of a throat infection at 67
- Sabina SpielreinRussian psychoanalyst (Destruction as the Cause of Becoming), killed by Nazis at 56 (exact date debated)
- Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), dies at 73
- James Mourilyan TannerBritish paediatric endocrinologist (born 1920)
- Harold FreemanAmerican oncology surgeon and founder of the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, dies at 93