Today in Medical History

June 2 in Medical History

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

Events

10
  1. 1903First patent for adrenaline (epinephrine) granted to Japanese-American chemist Jokichi TakamineDrug / VaccineOnThisDay
  2. 1904German professor Otto von Schron gives a public demonstration of a microbe that causes phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis)Discovery / ResearchOnThisDay
  3. 1984British actress Jill Ireland (52) has a radical mastectomyNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  4. 19914th Children's Miracle Network TelethonHealthcare institution / ProfessionOnThisDay
  5. 1992Sports HistoryFormer NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgeryNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  6. 19969th Children's Miracle Network TelethonHealthcare institution / ProfessionOnThisDay
  7. 2020Brazilian death toll passes 30,000 from COVID-19 at 31,199 with 555,383 number of cases confirmed, 2nd only to the USDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  8. 2020New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of CongoDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  9. 2020UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National StatisticsDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  10. 2020Event of InterestUN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing "endemic inequalities" around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minoritiesPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay

Born on this day

3
  1. 1644William SalmonEnglish medical writer (died 1713)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1824Samuel WilksBritish physician and founding father of clinical science, born in London (d. 1911)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  3. 1976'Masenate Mohato SeeisoQueen of Lesotho, patron of HIV/AIDS charities, born in Mapoteng, LesothoHealth leader / ActivistOnThisDay

Died on this day

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  1. 1948Karl BrandtGerman Nazi physician of Adolf Hitler, executed by hanging for war crimes at 44Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1948Karl GebhardtGerman Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates), executed by hanging at 50Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1948Viktor BrackGerman Nazi physician and war criminal, executed by hanging at 43Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  4. 1948Waldemar HovenGerman Nazi physician, convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates at Buchenwald, executed by hanging at 43Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 1948Wolfram SieversGerman Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for atrocities while director of the SS), executed by hanging at 42Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  6. 2000Svyatoslav FyodorovRussian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  7. 2014Alexander ShulginAmerican pharmacologist and chemist (born 1925)Medical scientistWikipedia
  8. 2018Paul D. BoyerAmerican biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (1997), dies at 99Medical scientistOnThisDay

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.