June 21 in Medical History
26 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The first medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer by the College of Philadelphia
- Father of Psychology Passes Med SchoolWilliam James 'the Father of American Psychology' passes his medical examination at Harvard Medical School
- Hawaiian Red Cross forms
- Lou Gehrig RetiresNY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig 's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
- Ninety-four people die and forty-five are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
- Saudi Arabia bans international visitors from making the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage in 2020 due to COVID-19
- WHO records a new record number of new daily cases of COVID-19 - 183,020, with 116,000 coming from North and South America
- Colombia's COVID-19 recorded death toll passes 100,000, the tenth country in the world to do so
Born on this day
- Leonhard RauwolfGerman physician and botanist (died 1596)
- Motoori NorinagaJapanese physician, scholar, and writer (Kojiki-den (Commentaries on the Kojiki)), born in Matsuzaka, Japan (d. 1801)
- Charles Thomas JacksonAmerican physician and geologist, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1880)
- Anton NuhnGerman anatomist and academic (died 1889)
- Charles AldertonAmerican pharmacist, founded Dr. Pepper (died 1941)
- William Dobinson HalliburtonBritish physiologist and biochemist (died 1931)
- Arnold GesellAmerican psychologist and pediatrician, born in Alma, Wisconsin (d. 1961)
- Helen CattanachBritish Army Nursing Service (QARANC), born in Knockando, Morayshire, Scotland (d. 1994)
- Jean LaplancheFrench psychoanalytic thinker, born in Paris (d. 2012)
- Patricia LindopBritish radiobiologist and physician, born in Brentford, Middlesex (d. 2018)
- Margaret HecklerAmerican politician and 15th U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85), born in New York City (d. 2018)
- Diane MarleauCanadian accountant and politician, Canadian Minister of Health (died 2013)
- Lenore MandersonAustralian anthropologist and academic
Died on this day
- Jean LiebaultFrench agronomist and physician (born 1535)
- Charles KrauthammerAmerican conservative political commentator and psychiatrist (The Washington Post), dies small intestine cancer of at 68
- Hattie WienerAmerican sexologist, dating coach and media personality known as the "Oldest Cougar in the World", dies at 88
- Maura L. GillisonCanadian medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist credited with discovering HPV can cause oral cancers, dies of cancer at 61