July 11 in Medical History
11 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Lord Salisbury ResignsBritish Prime Minister Lord Salisbury resigns from his third term in office due to ill health
- American hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness
- Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
- Rare mass anti-government protests across Cuba due to economic hardships and effects of COVID-19 lead to widespread arrests
- New study suggests dogs can "see" with their noses, the first documentation of a direct connection between the olfactory bulb and occipital lobe in any species
Born on this day
- Thomas BowdlerBritish physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), born in Ashley, Somerset, England (1754-1825)
- Erna FlegelGerman nurse who was still present in the Führerbunker when it was captured by Soviet troops (died 2006)
- Balaji SadasivanSingaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (died 2010)
Died on this day
- Michael DeBakeyLebanese-American cardiac surgeon and artificial heart pioneer, dies at 99
- William J. RutterAmerican biochemist and co-founder of the Chiron Corporation, dies of complications of cancer at 97
- Susumu TonegawaJapanese molecular biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987), dies at 86