August 21 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
- US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E. coli outbreak
- Dutch swimmer and cancer survivor Maarten van der Weijden wins inaugural men's open water marathon (10 km) in 1:51:51.6 at the Beijing Olympics
- Twenty people die from the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Chile's Constitutional Court approves a bill to ease the country's total abortion ban
- Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $417 million to a woman who develops ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products
Born on this day
- Jean StasBelgian chemist, born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1891)
- Karl GegenbaurGerman anatomist, born in Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1903)
- Reuven FeuersteinRomanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (died 2014)
- Art JanovAmerican psychologist and psychotherapist notable for creating primal therapy (The Primal Scream), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
Died on this day
- John McKinlyAmerican physician and politician, first Governor of Delaware (born 1721)
- Jules Bernard LuysFrench neurologist, made advances in neuroanatomy and neuropsychiatry (subthalamic nucleus), dies at 69
- Frank BoweAmerican academic (born 1947)