January 20 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 13th UCP Telethon
- Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID in the US, from samples taken on January 18 in Washington state
- US President Joe Biden signs 15 executive orders on his first day in office, including: US re-joining the WHO, affirming the Paris Climate Agreement, revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline, mandating masks on federal properties, and halting construction of the southern border wall
- In the first day of his return to office, President Donald Trump issues pardons to over 1500 of his supporters charged in connection with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, declares a national emergency at the southern border, and withdraws the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement on Climate
Born on this day
- Edward TysonEnglish physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy), born in Somerset, England (d. 1708)
- Michiel de SwaenDutch physician and poet, born in Dunkirk (d. 1701)
- Anson JonesAmerican physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (died 1858)
- Walter BartleyEnglish biochemist, born in Brighton, London (d. 1994)
- John WilsonBritish disability campaigner and co-founder of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (Sightsavers), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1999)
- Richard FriedmanAmerican psychoanalyst who proved sexual orientation was biological, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2020)
- Nikos SiderisGreek psychiatrist and poet
- Maria LarssonSwedish politician, born in Långasjö, Sweden
- Bernard TysonAmerican healthcare advocate & 1st African American CEO of Kaiser Permanente, born in San Francisco Bay Area, California
Died on this day
- John OrdronauxAmerican surgeon and academic (born 1830)
- Jamini SenBengali influential physician and first female Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, dies at 61
- Lorenz BöhlerAustrian physician (b. 1885)
- Alejandro RodriguezVenezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (born 1918)