May 19 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)
Events
- Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
- American tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
- Egyptian actor Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
- World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from Mount Sinai
- Sicko"Sicko" a documentary on the US health care system, directed by Michael Moore has its premiere at the Cannes Film festival.
- Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announces a 'circuit-breaker lockdown' as the country records over 39,000 daily COVID-19 cases
- New York City begins re-opening after 423 days (March 2020) with the COVID-19 death toll at 33,000
- The EU agrees to open its borders to vaccinated travelers from safe countries
- Environmental pollution caused by “obesogen" toxins is having a significant effect on the obesity crisis and can be passed down through the generations according to major new study
- Oklahoma passes a bill banning nearly all abortions, the most restrictive in the country
- Sports HistorySpanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz (23) announces his withdrawal from Wimbledon due to a wrist injury, via social media
Born on this day
- Johns HopkinsAmerican financier and philanthropist (founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University), born in Gambrills, Maryland (d. 1873)
- John Jacob AbelAmerican pharmacologist (endocrine glands), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1938)
- Ruth Ella MooreAmerican scientist (died 1994)
- Tina StrobosDutch physician and resistor to Nazi occupation, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2012)
- William H. Stewart10th US Surgeon General (1965-69), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2008)
- Edward de BonoMaltese physician, author, and academic (died 2021)
- Jerry HymanAmerican rock trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears, 1968-70), and chiropractor, born in Brooklyn, New York City
- Lena EinhornSwedish director, writer and physician
- Andres SalumetsEstonian biologist, biochemist, and educator
Died on this day
- Josiah BartlettAmerican physician and statesman (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 65
- Johann Friedrich von EschscholtzEstonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (born 1793)
- Heinrich QuinckeGerman internist and surgeon (postural drainage), dies at 79
- Daniel CiugureanuRomanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (born 1884)
- Robert F. FurchgottAmerican pharmacologist (co-winner Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1998), and educator, dies at 92