June 20 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin discovers bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague in Hong Kong (Yersinia pestis named in his honor)
- John Paul II HospitalizedPope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
- Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module.
- Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
- Sports HistoryJoel Embiid undergoes surgery on a broken navicular bone in his right foot
- Heat wave peaks in southern Pakistan, goes on to kill about 2,000 people from dehydration and heat stroke
- Woods Checks into ClinicTiger Woods checks into a clinic to manage his pain medication and sleep disorder, following his arrest for driving under the influence
- Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passes 500,000, the second highest in the world
- China announces it has administered 1 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Landmark trial of antiviral drug lenacapavir among African women shows 100% HIV prevention
Born on this day
- Frederick Gowland HopkinsBritish biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1947)
- George Redmayne MurrayEnglish biologist and physician (died 1939)
- Leon WachholzPolish scientist and medical examiner (died 1942)
- Jamini SenBengali influential physician and first female Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, born in Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1933)
- Reginald PunnettEnglish geneticist, statistician, and academic (died 1967)
- Johannes Heinrich SchultzGerman psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 1970)
- Bob KingAmerican high jumper and obstetrician (died 1965)
- Asrat WoldeyesEthiopian surgeon and educator (died 1999)
- Huda ZoghbiAmerican geneticist
Died on this day
- Félix Vicq-d'AzyrFrench physician and anatomist (discover the theory of homology in biology), dies at 46
- Josef BreuerAustrian psychologist (b. 1842)
- Erwin ChargaffAustro-Hungarian-American Jewish biochemist, known for Chargaff's rules, dies at 96
- Paul M. Ellwood Jr.American pediatric neurologist known as the "Father of the Health Maintenance Organization", dies at 95