August 30 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Fiacre
Events
- Meat Inspections BeginPresident Benjamin Harrison signs the first US law requiring inspection of meat products
- Dr. KildareAmerican medical drama series "Dr. Kildare," starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, ends a five-season run on NBC-TV
- Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
- Global cases of COVID-19 surpass 25 million, with the death toll at 843,000
- India reports world's highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases at 78,761
- Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol, ending 99 years of gasoline use worldwide, saving 1.2 million lives a year
Born on this day
- Maurice R. HillemanAmerican microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, born in Miles City, Montana (d. 2005)
- Barbara Mary AnsellUK founder of paediatric rheumatology, born in Warwick, England (d. 2001)
- Victor SkuminRussian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
- Sabine OberhauserAustrian physician and politician (died 2017)
Died on this day
- J. Donald MillarAmerican epidemiologist and the first director of the smallpox eradication bureau at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dies of kidney failure at 81
- Oliver SacksBritish neurologist and author (Awakenings), dies at 82