June 28 in Medical History
26 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proves tomatoes are not poisonous by eating a tomato on the steps of a courthouse in Salem, New Jersey
- Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
- Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
- Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
- Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco 's arm
- Gooden SuspendedMLB New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
- In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council
- The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
- Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared "largely contained" by World Health Organization, first outbreak to use new Merck vaccine
- COVID-19 cases surge in southern and western US states with California, Texas and Florida closing bars, Arizona reports 20% of tests returning as positive
- Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, doubling in less than two months (Johns Hopkins)
- Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana use by adults
Born on this day
- William HooperAmerican physician, lawyer, and politician (died 1790)
- Paul BrocaFrench brain surgeon and anthropologist (located speech center), born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France (d. 1880)
- Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France (d. 1944)
- Clara MaassAmerican army nurse who sacrificed her life at 25 to prove that mosquitoes carry yellow fever, born in East Orange, New Jersey (d. 1901)
- Mary BernheimEnglish biochemist who discovered monoamine oxidase, and professor (Duke Medical School), born in Gloucester, England (d. 1997)
- Yvonne SylvainFirst female Haitian physician (died 1989)
- Aribert HeimAustrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1992)
- William C. CampbellIrish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Fernand LabrieCanadian endocrinologist and academic (died 2019)
- Bernie ZilbergeldAmerican psychologist and writer (The New Male Sexuality), born in Freehold, New Jersey (d. 2002)
- Jean-Christophe RufinFrench physician and author
- Leona AglukkaqCanadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health
Died on this day
- Richard IsayAmerican psychiatrist and author (born 1934)
- David AtkinsonBritish air marshal, and honorary physician to the Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 90