June 14 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Blood Donor Day
Events
- Music HistoryDrummer Ringo Starr re-unites with the Beatles in Melbourne, Australia, after recovering from tonsillitis
- Event of InterestCalifornia Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so
- The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10-year-old girl
- India reports surge of nearly 12,000 a day confirmed COVID-19 cases (320,922 overall), the world's fourth-affected country, as death toll hits 9,195
Born on this day
- Alois AlzheimerGerman psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria (1864-1915)
- Karl LandsteinerAustrian immunologist and pathologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1930, for the discovery of different blood groups), born in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary (1868-1943)
- Ida MacLeanBritish biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (died 1944)
- E. Cuyler HammondAmerican epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1986)
- James BlackScottish pharmacologist, developer of treatments for heart disease (propranolol) and stomach ulcers (cimetidine) (Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988), born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland (1924-2010)
- Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary (Cuban Revolution), author and physician, born in Rosario, Argentina (1928-1967)
Died on this day
- Richard CottonAustralian geneticist and academic (born 1940)