March 1 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Self-injury Awareness Day (international)
Events
- Rebecca Lee in the US becomes the first African American woman to receive a medical degree
- 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
- Stalin's StrokeAfter an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
- Baseball HistoryFuture Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams fractures his collarbone on the first day of Boston Red Sox spring training; injury keeps him out of Boston lineup until May 15
- Music HistoryAmerican singer Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
- Gene for grey hair (IRF4) discovery announced by Scientists from University College London in "Nature Communications"
- First known COVID-19 case identified in New York, a health care worker returning from Iran
- At least 1000 Iranian school girls exposed to toxic gas attacks, since November, amid accusations they are an attempt to close schools after girls participated in recent anti-government protests
Born on this day
- Monique BéginFrench Canadian politician and academic who fought for universal healthcare and women's equality (Ladies, Upstairs), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2023)
- Jerri NielsenAmerican physician and explorer (died 2009)
- Denis MukwegeCongolese gynecologist, founded Panzi Hospital (Noble Peace Prize 2018), born in Bukavu, Belgian Congo
- Bertrand PiccardSwiss balloonist and psychiatrist, born in Lausanne, Switzerland
Died on this day
- Thomas CampionEnglish physician, composer, poet (Poemata), dies at 53
- Francesco RediItalian physician, dies at 71
- Alexandre YersinSwiss-French physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)
- Mariano AzuelaMexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses), dies at 79
- Alejandro ZaffaroniUruguayan-born biochemist, helped create birth control pill and nicotine patch, dies at 91
- Kermit GosnellAmerican abortion clinic doctor and convicted murderer, dies at 85