March 3 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Hearing Day
Events
- Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
- 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
- North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
- A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a tunnel shortly after departing from Balvano, Basilicata, Italy just after midnight, with 517 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw is admitted to hospital for surgery to repair his throwing arm under the alias 'Tom Brady'
- A 2-year-old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
- Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
- Last Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Beni, DR Congo, raising hopes outbreak at an end in the country after 2,300 deaths
- Great apes at San Diego Zoo reported given experimental COVID-19 vaccine designed for animals after earlier outbreak among the gorillas (San Diego, California)
- US President Joe Biden criticizes lifting of COVID-19 restrictions by Texas and Mississippi as "Neanderthal thinking"
Born on this day
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus1965 Ethiopian politician and the first African Director-General of the World Health Organization, born in Asmara, Eritrea (61 years old)
- Norman BethuneCanadian doctor, communist and humanitarian (Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War), born in Gravenhurst, Ontario (1890-1939)
- Jay ArenaAmerican pediatrician (Duke Poison Center Director, inventor of the child-proof safety cap), born in Clarksburg, West Virginia (d. 1996)
- Arthur KornbergAmerican biochemist (1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of DNA polymerase), born in New York City (d. 2007)
- Heiner GeißlerGerman politician (Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health, 1982–85), and party leader (General Secretary of Christian Democratic Union, 1977-89), born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany (d. 2017)
Died on this day
- Matthias de l'ObelFlemish physician and botanist (born 1538)
- William StukeleyEnglish physician and archaeologist (pioneered investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury), dies at 77
- Rebecca LancefieldAmerican microbiologist and researcher (born 1895)
- Albert SabinPolish American physician who invented the oral polio vaccine, dies of heart failure at 86 (1906-1993)
- Sherwin B. Nuland [Shepsel Ber Nudelman]American surgeon and author (How We Die; Lost in America), dies of cancer at 83