June 8 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- World Brain Tumor Day
Events
- Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III's left leg is amputated at his court in Linz, the most famous record of surgery in the Middle Ages - he survives until August 19
- Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
- The American Heart Association is the first organization to campaign against cigarettes
- Jazz legend Oscar Peterson forced to cancel his appearance at Carnegie Hall all-star performance (held in his honor), due to illness
- Lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives according to study by Imperial College London
- New York begins reopening after 100 days of lockdown due to COVID-19 with just 702 hospitalized (18,825 at peak of outbreak)
- The Philippines says children won't go back to school until a vaccine is found for COVID-19
- World Bank says the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2% in 2020
Born on this day
- Jacques-Arsène d'ArsonvalFrench physicist and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer, born in La Porcherie, France (d. 1940)
- Guido BantiItalian physician and pathologist (died 1925)
- Karl GenzkenNazi physician, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, born in Preetz, German Empire (d. 1957)
- Ernst-Robert GrawitzGerman physician and SS officer, facilitator of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates (died 1945)
- Francis CrickEnglish molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with James Watson (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), born in Northampton, England (1916-2004)
- Nada InadaJapanese psychiatrist and author (died 2013)
- Eric F. WieschausAmerican biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995), born in South Bend, Indiana
Died on this day
- Eugène FisetFrench Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1939-50), dies at 77
- Thomas StuttafordBritish doctor, medical columnist (The Times, 1981-2009), and Conservative MP (1970-74), dies at 87