Today in Medical History

January 3 in Medical History

15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Events

8
  1. 1889Nietzsche's BreakdownGerman philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffers a mental breakdown after supposedly witnessing a horse floggingNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  2. 1945Cato-Meridian School in New York installs germicidal lamps in every roomPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  3. 1946Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf suffers a concussion during a freak racing accident; he dies from the injury the following day. The annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.Notable person's healthWikipedia
  4. 1994Theatrical FinaleSpalding Gray 's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" closes at the Beaumont Theater in New York City after a limited run of 13 performancesMedicine in film/TV/sportOnThisDay
  5. 1998American "Hee Haw" banjo player Grandpa Jones suffers a strokeNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  6. 2018First bionic hand with a sense of touch, for use outside a lab unveiled in RomeSurgery / Procedure / DeviceOnThisDay
  7. 2022America records one million new COVID-19 cases for the first time, Omicron accounting for an estimated 95% of theseDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  8. 2022Holmes Guilty of FraudElizabeth Holmes , founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, is found guilty on four counts of fraud in San Jose, CaliforniaPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay

Born on this day

4
  1. 1789Carl Gustav CarusGerman physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1869)Medical scientistOnThisDay
  2. 1847Ettore MarchiafavaItalian physician (died 1935)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1932Emanuel 'Manny' NosowskyAmerican urologist and crossword creator for The New York Times (1992-2010), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2026)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  4. 1980Liya KebedeEthiopian model and WHO goodwill ambassador for maternal, newborn, and child health, born in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaHealth leader / ActivistOnThisDay

Died on this day

3
  1. 1995Gerard W. TaylorSouth African-British surgeon, dies at 74Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  2. 2012Wylie Walker ValeAmerican endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, dies at 70Medical scientistOnThisDay
  3. 2022Beatrice MintzAmerican embryologist and cancer researcher (transgenic mice), dies at 100Medical scientistOnThisDay

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.