May 24 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st African American to head an American Medical Association unit (New York County)
- "Poison" singer Bret Michaels is involved in a car crash
- Andrew Wakefield, doctor at the center of MMR vaccination scare, struck off the UK medical register after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct
- The New York Times prints front page with nearly 1,000 names of people who have died from COVID-19, as the US toll nears 100,000
- India's official COVID-19 death toll passes 300,000 (303,720), the third country to do so, with experts saying it is a vast undercount
- American rock band Aerosmith cancels planned Las Vegas concerts in June and July as singer Steven Tyler returns to drug rehab
- Man with paralysis walks naturally for the first time in 12 years after a Swiss team created a neurological link between the brain and spinal cord, findings published in "Nature"
Born on this day
- William GilbertEnglish physician and physicist (research into magnetism), born in Colchester, England (d. 1603)
- Jean-Paul MaratFrench journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), born in Boudry, Prussia (1743-1793)
- Susan Sutherland IsaacsBritish educational psychologist and psychoanalyst, born in Turton, Lancashire (d. 1948)
- David ViscottAmerican psychiatrist and media personality, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
- Magnus ManskeGerman biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki
- Monica Lin BrownAmerican sergeant
- Emily Temple WoodAmerican 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
Died on this day
- Georg Ernst StahlGerman physician and chemist (Vitalism), dies at 74
- Simon StyleFries medical/writer, dies at 73
- Fanny SearlsAmerican biologist (born 1851)
- Jacqueline HarpmanBelgian psychoanalyst and author (born 1929)