Today in Medical History

March 14 in Medical History

13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Events

6
  1. 1900Mendel's Laws RediscoveredDutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel 's laws of heredity and geneticsDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay
  2. 1913Rockefeller FoundationJohn D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller FoundationPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  3. 1942Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.Drug / VaccineWikipedia
  4. 1997Event of InterestUS President Bill Clinton trips and injures his knee requiring surgeryNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  5. 2018Event of InterestNASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes alteredDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay
  6. 2022Omicron causes the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in China since Wuhan 2020 with 26 million people under lockdown in Changchun and ShenzhenDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1692Pieter MusschenbroekDutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar), born in Leiden, Dutch Republic (d. 1761)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  2. 1737Ioan Nicolidi of PindusAromanian physician and noble (died 1828)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1833Lucy Hobbs Taylor1st American woman dentist (1866), and women's rights activist, born in Constable, New York (d. 1910)Dentist / Pharmacist / AlliedWikipedia
  4. 1854Paul EhrlichGerman bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), born in Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1915)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 1948Tom CoburnAmerican politician (Senator-R-Oklahoma 2005-2015, Rep-R-Oklahoma 1995-2001), born in Casper, Wyoming (d. 2020)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia

Died on this day

2
  1. 1970Fritz PerlsGerman-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (father of Gestalt therapy), dies at 76Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay
  2. 1995Ed RobertsAmerican activist for disability rights, dies at 56Health leader / ActivistOnThisDay

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.