January 13 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Gluten-free diet day
Events
- Doctors' Plot: Nine Jewish Kremlin physicians are accused of being British and US intelligence agents
- An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- Minnesota North Stars NHL player Bill Masterson, suffers head injuries during a game and dies two days later, becoming the 1st player to die as result of a game
- United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
- AMA Urges Boxing BanAmerican Medical Association urges a ban on boxing, citing Muhammad Ali 's deteriorating health
- Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17.1 million
- Harold Shipman, a British GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients in Manchester, is found hanged in his prison cell
- The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
- Irish PM Minister Micheál Martin issues apology for treatment of unmarried mothers and babies in church-run institutions 1920-1990s after report 9,000 children had died
- China reports 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths in just over a month while another report estimates 900 million people have been infected, 64% of the country's population
Born on this day
- Oskar MinkowskiGerman physiologist and physician (Diabetes research), born in Aleksotas (d. 1931)
- Max NonneGerman neurologist, born in Hamburg (d. 1959)
- Ross Granville HarrisonAmerican biologist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
- Sabine ZlatinPolish-born French nurse who tried save Izieu children from Nazis), born in Warsaw (d. 1996)
- Guy DodsonNew Zealand-English biochemist and academic (died 2012)
- Gordon McVieEnglish oncologist and author (died 2021)
Died on this day
- William MasonAmerican politician, dies at 73
- Hubert HumphreyAmerican politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (1965-69), and 1968 Presidential candidate, dies of bladder cancer at 66 (1911-1978)