July 1 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Doctors' Day (India)
Events
- First x-ray photo of entire body, taken by Arthur Fuchs of Eastman-Kodak Company in Rochester, New York
- US national health insurance program Medicare goes into effect
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after he crashes his car near Durness in the Scottish Highlands
- Helmetless bike riding becomes illegal in Victoria, Australia
- England bans smoking in all public indoor spaces: with the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Australia implements a similar ban.
- Ethiopian politician Tedros Adhanom takes office as first African Director-General of the World Health Organization
- America confirms more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day for the first time
- Australian state of Melbourne re-imposes a COVID-19 lockdown on 36 Melbourne suburbs affecting 300,000 people
- Europe opens its borders to 15 safe countries after months of lockdown, excluding the US, Brazil and Russia
- WHO says Middle East at "critical threshold" with COVID-19 cases over 1 million, 80% of deaths in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia
- Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces a two-week lockdown for the islands of Java and Bali amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in South East Asia
- France begins ban on smoking in all outdoor areas frequented by children; including parks, beaches, public gardens, bus stops, school entrances, and sports venues; fines start at 90 euros
- Largest healthcare fraud initiative in US history: US justice department announces it has halted healthcare fraud schemes worth US$14.6 billion; charging 324 defendants, including 93 doctors and other medical professionals
Born on this day
- Hadrianus Junius [Adriaen de Jonghe]Dutch physician, historian and humanist, born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1575)
- Ignaz SemmelweisHungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed) fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1865)
- Karl von VierordtGerman physician, psychologist and academic (died 1884)
- Bidhan Chandra RoyIndian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962)
- Mary CalderoneAmerican physician and founder of Planned Parenthood, born in New York City (d. 1998)
- Norman PirieScottish-English biochemist and virologist (died 1997)
- Joseph RansohoffAmerican neurosurgeon and pioneer in the modern neurosurgery, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2001)
- Michalina WisłockaPolish gynecologist and sexologist (died 2005)
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biochemist (Nobel 1972), born in Ozone Park, New York (d. 2014)
- Alfred G. GilmanAmerican scientist (1994 Nobel laureate for G-protein discoveries), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2015)
- David LaneEnglish oncologist and academic
Died on this day
- Louis-Ferdinand CélineFrench writer (Die Nacht), dies at 67
- Bidhan Chandra RoyIndian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882)