July 5 in Medical History
29 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- National Health Service established in the UK; Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan attends ceremony at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, Trafford
- Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
- Rod Stewart Knocked OutBritish singer Rod Stewart hits his head on a lighting fixture while on stage and knocks himself out in Pine Knob, Michigan
- Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- The World Health Organization announces that the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained.
- Heatwave in southern Quebec, Canada, kills 33 people
- Florida reports a record 11,458 daily COVID-19 cases
- Mexico's COVID-19 death toll passes 30,000 as it becomes the world's 5th worst-affected country
- England Scraps Covid RestrictionsPrime Minister Boris Johnson says he will scrap all COVID-19 restrictions in England from 19 July, to become most unrestricted country in Europe
- Carlos Santana CollapsesLegendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana collapses on stage from dehydration and heat exhaustion in Pine Knob, Michigan
- Back to the BeginningOzzy Osbourne 's "Back to the Beginning" final concert performance includes a reunion with original Black Sabbath band members at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, and raise funds for children's hospitals and Parkinson's disease research; other acts in the day-long festival include Metallica , Slayer, Guns N’ Roses, Gojira, and Anthrax
Born on this day
- Carl Arnold KortumGerman physician and poet (died 1824)
- François Carlo AntommarchiFrench physician (died 1838)
- Mathieu JaboulayFrench surgeon (died 1913)
- George NuttallAmerican-British bacteriologist (died 1937)
- Eugen FischerNazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany (1874-1967)
- Herbert Spencer GasserAmerican physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1963)
- John H. NorthropAmerican biochemist (crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946)), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1987)
- Arno MotulskyGerman-born founder of medical genetics, known as the "father of pharmacogenomics", born in Fischhausen, East Prussia, Weimar Germany (d. 2018)
- Ivo PitanguyBrazilian celebrity cosmetic surgeon, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (d. 2016)
- Jovan RaškovićSerbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (died 1992)
- Pierre-Marc JohnsonQuébéc lawyer, physician and politician (24th Premier of Quebec), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Ludwig G. StraussGerman physician and academic (died 2013)
Died on this day
- Antonio Maria ZaccariaItalian saint and physician, founded the Barnabites religious order, dies at about 37
- Albrecht KosselGerman physician (Nobel 1910), dies at 73
- Arie Queridopsychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
- Bengt I. SamuelssonSwedish biochemist, (1982 Nobel laureate for Medicine or Physiology for prostaglandins), dies at 90
- Anthony 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), dies at 85
- Walt OdetsAmerican psychologist and author (In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 79