Today in Medical History

January 9 in Medical History

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

Events

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  1. 1349Black Death Massacre: 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, are burnt to death in a specially constructed building on suspicion of poisoning the community during the Bubonic Plague; part of a wave of pogroms across Western EuropeDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  2. 1979Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetusesPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  3. 1997Heart attack sends singer Frank Sinatra back to hospitalNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  4. 2015A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.Public health / PolicyWikipedia
  5. 2021China places two cities, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, under lockdown after over 130 cases of COVID-19 reportedDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1823Friedrich von EsmarchGerman surgeon and academic (died 1908)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1911Richard SchilingBritish professor of occupational health, born in Kessingland, Suffolk, England (d. 1997)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  3. 1920Hakim Mohammed SaidPakistani scholar and medical researcher, born in New Delhi, India (d. 1998)Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 1922Har Gobind KhoranaIndian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), born in Raipur, Punjab, British India (d. 2011)Medical scientistWikipedia
  5. 1941Anthony W. RobbinsAmerican physician, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (1978-81) and co-editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy (2003-19), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2026)Health leader / ActivistOnThisDay
  6. 1950Alec JeffreysEnglish geneticist who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting, born in Oxford, EnglandMedical scientistWikipedia
  7. 1963Irwin McLeanNorthern Irish biologist and academicMedical scientistWikipedia
  8. 1978Maggie RizerAmerican AIDS activist and model (Louis Vuitton AW14), born in Staten Island, New YorkHealth leader / ActivistOnThisDay

Died on this day

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  1. 1805Noble Wimberly JonesAmerican Continental Congressman (b. 1723)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1858Anson Jones5th and last President of Texas commits suicide at 59Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1876Samuel Gridley HoweUnited States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind, dies at 74Health leader / ActivistWikipedia
  4. 2012László SzekeresHungarian physician and academic (born 1921)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 2013Brigitte AskonasAustrian-English immunologist and academic (born 1923)Medical scientistWikipedia

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.