March 22 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 1st US nursing school chartered
- Sports HistoryEthiopian double Olympic marathon gold medalist Abebe Bikila (36) is paralyzed in auto accident near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; regained upper-body mobility, but never walked again
- In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the US Supreme Court rules that unmarried people have the same right to contraception as married people
- Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally cuts his throat
- Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
- India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19
- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- Microplastics found in human blood for first time through new research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands
- Johnson Grilled Over PartygateFormer UK PM Boris Johnson is grilled by Government Privileges Committee over whether he intentionally misled parliament over COVID-19 rule breaches by his administration
- Beethoven's DNA AnalysisNew DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven 's hair reveals he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B, but doesn't explain his deafness
- Kate's Cancer DiagnosisCatherine, Princess of Wales , says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in a video statement, after an "incredibly tough couple of months"
Born on this day
- David Swinson MaynardAmerican physician and lawyer (died 1873)
- Julius MarmurAmerican biochemist and geneticist (DNA research), born in Bialystok, Poland (d. 1996)
- Els BorstDutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2014)
- Leslie TurnbergBritish physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians (1992-97), and author (Patients First: How to Save the NHS), born in Manchester, England
- Haing S. NgorCambodian-American obstetrician, author, refugee and actor (The Killing Fields), born in Samrong Yong, Cambodia (d. 1996)
- Valdis ZatlersLatvian politician 7th President of Latvia, born in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR
Died on this day
- Eeltsje Hiddes HalbertsmaDutch Frisian physician, writer, and poet (Rymes & Tales), dies at 60
- Ruggero OddiItalian physiologist and anatomist (born 1864)
- Louis-Antoine RanvierFrench anatomist and historian, dies at 86
- William MacewenScottish surgeon and neuroscientist (born 1848)
- James BlackScottish pharmacologist, developer of treatments for heart disease (propranolol) and stomach ulcers (cimetidine) (Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988), dies at 85 (1924-2010)
- Arkady ArkanovUkrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)