June 30 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Henry II Injured JoustingKing Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery
- The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
- Food Safety Acts PassedUS Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period ( Upton Sinclair 's 'The Jungle' in particular)
- British rock guitarist Dave Davies (The Kinks) suffers a debilitating stroke, at 57; he recovers in 2006 to resume his music career
- Religious Exemption for ObamacareUS Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provisions of the Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') on religious grounds
- Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter
- Bangladesh begins a one-week lockdown enforced by the army as COVID-19 cases soar due to the Delta variant
- Extreme heat wave caused at least 100 deaths in British Columbia according to state Coroners' Office
Born on this day
- Félix SavartFrench surgeon and physicist (law of Biot & Savart), born in Mézières, France (d. 1841)
- Thomas Lovell BeddoesEnglish poet (Death's Jest-Book), born in Clifton, Somerset, England (d. 1849)
- Paul BoffaMaltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1962)
- Marianne AngermannGerman–Spanish–New Zealand biochemist (died 1977)
- Paul BergAmerican biochemist (development of recombinant DNA techniques, Nobel Chemistry 1980), born in New York City (d. 2023)
- Raymond MoodyAmerican parapsychologist, physician and author (Life After Life), born in Porterdale, Georgia
Died on this day
- Norman AldridgeEnglish toxicologist (solved global poisoning mysteries), dies at 76
- Rosalinde HurleyBritish pathologist, medical administrator, and lawyer, dies at 74
- Arthur PorterCanadian physician and academic (born 1956)
- Stella MadzimbamutoZimbabwean activist (born 1930)
- Lucian LeapeAmerican surgeon and patient safety advocate who worked on the "To Err Is Human" report, dies of heart failure at 94