May 2 in Medical History
29 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The US Supreme Court rules in "Buck v. Bell" that states may forcibly sterilize people deemed "unfit" under eugenic policies
- KYTL (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting with a telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy
- American pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
- E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick
- E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, reports the first fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states
- Indian city of Kanpur declared world's most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20
- Iowa passes US's strictest abortion ban, based on a fetal heartbeat
- Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time
- New Zealand reopens its borders to international visitors from more than 60 countries after being closed for two years during the pandemic
- US Supreme Court draft opinion leaks suggesting Roe v. Wade about to be overturned published on news website Portico
- First non-invasive mind reader developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin by combing functional magnetic resonance imaging with AI (results hit and miss so far)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 216 children in the US have died this flu season, the deadliest year since the 2009 swine flu pandemic
Born on this day
- Jean-Louis-Marc AlibertFrench dermatologist, born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France (d. 1837)
- Abraham GesnerCanadian geologist (inventor of kerosene), born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (1797-1864)
- William Maddock BaylissBritish physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (d. 1924)
- John Scott HaldaneScottish physiologist, physician, and academic (died 1936)
- Gottfried BennGerman physician, pathologist, poet, and essayist (Morgue and other Poems), born in Mansfeld, Germany (d. 1956)
- Benjamin SpockAmerican pediatrician and writer (Common Sense Book of Baby Care), born in New Haven, Connecticut (1903-1998)
- Patrick Hillery6th President of Ireland (1976-90), EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister, born in Spanish Point, Ireland (d. 2008)
Died on this day
- Albert SebaAmsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
- James Gates PercivalAmerican poet, surgeon and geologist (born 1795)
- Ernest StarlingBritish physiologist (Frank–Starling law of the heart), dies at 61
- Ludwig StumpfeggerGerman SS doctor and Hitler's personal surgeon commits suicide at 34
- Simon FlexnerAmerican pathologist and first Director of Rockefeller Institute, dies of a heart attack at 83
- David WechslerAmerican psychologist who developed intelligence scales, dies at 85
- Lee SalkRussian-American child psychologist and author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
- John EcclesAustralian neurologist (1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the synapse), dies at 94
- Kenneth Bancroft ClarkAmerican civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, dies at 90
- Endang Rahayu SedyaningsihIndonesian physician and politician, Indonesian Minister of Health (born 1955)