March 11 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania opens, 2nd female medical school in the US
- Anandibai Gopal Joshi (20) becomes the first Indian female to earn a medical degree in the US, graduating from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
- 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
- San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
- COVID-19 PandemicCOVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
- NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19
- World Air Quality Report identifies Byrnihat, India, as the world's most polluted city, with Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and India the most polluted countries
Born on this day
- Thomas GrayEnglish pioneering anaesthetist, born in Liverpool, England (d. 2008)
- Margaret Oakley DayhoffAmerican biochemist and academic (died 1983)
- Thomas StarzlAmerican surgeon, performed 1st successful liver transplant, born in Le Mars, Iowa (d. 2017)
- Sam TsemberisGreek-Canadian clinical psychologist, founder of Pathways to Housing in the US, born in Skoúra, Greece
Died on this day
- Willard RichardsAmerican physician and religious leader, dies at 49
- John Shaw BillingsAmerican librarian & surgeon, dies at 74
- Alexander FlemingScottish bacteriologist (discovered penicillin; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945), dies of a heart attack at 73 (1881-1955)
- Camille LaurinQuebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), dies at 76
- Herbert JasperCanadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
- Leena Peltonen-PalotieFinnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
- Jesse RothAmerican endocrinologist known for his work on the cause of Type 2 diabetes, dies at 91