June 9 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth
- Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
- Brian Jones leaves the Rolling Stones after developing a serious drug problem
- Comedian Richard Pryor suffers severe burns from free basing cocaine
- Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage, in California
- Red Hot + BlueRed Hot Organization releases music album "Red Hot + Blue" featuring contemporary pop stars (including U2 ; Annie Lennox ; Thompson Twins; Sinéad O'Connor; Tom Waits ) performing songs of Cole Porter to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV
- Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy announces agreement to examine brains of recently deceased San Francisco 49ers football players Joe Perry and John Henry Johnson for signs of injury
- World Health Organzsation advises delaying pregnancy in areas with the Zika virus
- Conjoined twins with a fused brain successfully separated with help of virtual reality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born on this day
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson1st qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh), born in London (d. 1917)
- Henry DaleEnglish physiologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1936), born in London, England (d. 1968)
- Patrick SteptoeEnglish scientist (developed in vitro fertilization), born in Oxford, England (d. 1988)
- Fernand SeguinCanadian biochemist and academic (died 1988)
- Jordi PujolSpanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- Richard A. CashAmerican global health researcher (died 2024)
Died on this day
- Camille GuérinFrench scientist (b. 1872)
- George BeadleAmerican geneticist (biochemical genetics - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958), dies at 85
- Cyril KarabusSouth African paediatric oncologist (born 1935)