January 8 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Singer Justin Bieber reveals he has Lyme disease, an infectious disease spread by ticks
- Tokyo State of EmergencyJapan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declares a state of emergency for Tokyo and surrounding areas after COVID-19 cases surge to their highest level
- The United Kingdom passes 150,000 COVID-19 deaths, the first country in Europe and the seventh globally
- China loosens travel restrictions and reopens its borders after nearly three years
- Pope Calls for Ban on SurrogacyPope Francis says surrogate motherhood should be banned calling it "despicable" for commercializing pregnancy
Born on this day
- Henrik ShipsteadAmerican senator (1923 to 1947), who opposed foreign intervention, born in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota (d. 1960)
- Sandor RadoHungarian-American psychoanalyst, born in Kisvárda, Hungary (d. 1972)
- Carl RogersAmerican psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1987)
- Karl BrandtGerman Nazi physician to Adolf Hitler and convicted war criminal, born in Mulhouse, German Alsace-Lorraine (d. 1948)
- Malcom PottsBritish reproductive scientist and the first medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, born in Sunderland, England (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- Ian Dawson-ShepherdBritish disabilities campaigner (cerebrally palsied people), dies at 80
- T. J. HamblinEnglish haematologist and academic (born 1943)
- Nancy Leftenant-ColonAmerican Army nurse and major, first Black woman to join US Army Corps in 1946, dies at 104