June 3 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)
Events
- Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
- Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
- Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, just before the Beatles embark on a World Tour
- First artificial gene is synthesized
- John Paul II Leaves HospitalPope John Paul II is released from hospital after an assassination attempt
- 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
- Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
- NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the International Space Station aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket
Born on this day
- Giovanni Antonio ScopoliItalian-Austrian physician and naturalist interested in entomology (Entomologia Carniolica), born in Cavalese, Italy (d. 1788)
- James HuttonScottish geologist and father of modern geology, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1726-1797)
- Aristides Agramonte y SimoniCuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), born in Camagüey, Cuba (d. 1931)
- Otto LoewiGerman physician (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1936), born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1961)
- Georg von BekesyHungarian-American physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physioloy or Medicine 1961 for work on the inner ear), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1972)
- Edward WayneEnglish physician (Queen of Scotland, Wayne score), born in Leeds, England (d. 1990)
- Charles R. DrewAmerican physician and surgeon who pioneered blood plasma research and developed the blood bank concept, born in Washington, D. C. (1904-1950)
- Ignacio PonsetiSpanish physician and orthopedist (died 2009)
- Werner ArberSwiss microbiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978, for discovery of restriction enzymes), born in Gränichen, Switzerland
Died on this day
- William HarveyEnglish physician (discovered blood circulation), dies at 79
- Coenraad HiebendaalDutch rower and physician (born 1879)
- Clara NoyesAmerican nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), dies from a heart attack at 66
- Archibald Vivian HillEnglish physiologist (1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - discovery of production of heat in muscle), dies at 90
- Roger Wolcott SperryAmerican neurobiologist (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, work with split-brain research), dies at 89
- Jack KevorkianAmerican pathologist and right-to-die activist, dies of a thrombosis at 83 (1928-2011)