January 28 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize abortion
- "La Vie Commence Demain," the first X-rated movie depicting artificial insemination, opens in London
- Campanella ParalyzedDodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
- Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
- Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
- Emergency Plan for AIDS ReliefIn his State of the Union address US President George W. Bush announces President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - plan will go on to save 25 million lives worldwide (as of Jan 2023)
- DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
- Mexico's COVID-19 death toll becomes the world's third highest, overtaking India's at 155,145
Born on this day
- Paul LutherGerman scientist (died 1593)
- Giovanni Alfonso Borellimathematician and astronomer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire (now Italy) (d. 1679)
- Samuel Thomas von SömmerringPolish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (died 1830)
- Robert W. HolleyAmerican biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), born in Los Gatos, California (d. 1991)
- David Carl HilmersAmerican NASA astronaut (STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42), born in Clinton, Iowa
Died on this day
- John McCraeCanadian physician , soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields), dies of pneumonia at 45 (1872-1918)
- Donald WinnicottBritish psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
- Ola RaknesNorwegian psychoanalyst and philologist, dies at 77
- Doris WethersAmerican pediatrician and co-founder of the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease, dies of complications of a stroke at 91