May 30 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Dymphna
Events
- First federal workers' compensation law is approved
- The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Indianapolis 500: Labelled "Hottest 500" due to high temperatures, Bill Vukovich wins first of 2 consecutive Indy 500 victories; Carl Scarborough drops out of race, and later dies of heat prostration
- Detroit Tigers player Al Kaline collides with another player, is knocked unconscious and nearly swallows his tongue
- 36 people are hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco after drinking LSD-spiked apple juice
- Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years
- Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs new anti-abortion law, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat is detected
- Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health, published in "British Medical Journal"
- Record number of COVID-19 cases reported worldwide 134,064, driven by hot spots in Brazil, Peru, Egypt, South Africa, and Bangladesh
- March Against BolsonaroTens of thousands of people march in Brazilian cities against President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Holmes Begins Prison SentenceFormer American start-up founder Elizabeth Holmes begins her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors with her blood-testing company Theranos
Born on this day
- Brian Kobilka1955 American physiologist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2012 - G protein-coupled receptors), born in Little Falls, Minnesota (71 years old)
- Pierre JanetFrench psychologist and neurologist (contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour), born in Paris (d. 1947)
- Ernest DuchesneFrench physician (died 1912)
- Julius AxelrodAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- John Henry MarksEnglish physician and author (died 2022)
Died on this day
- Bernard NieuwentytDutch philosopher and physician, dies at 63
- Rosalyn YalowAmerican medical physicist (Nobel 1977), dies at 89
- Andrew HuxleyBritish physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
- Jayalath JayawardenaSri Lankan physician and politician (born 1953)
- Geneviève de GalardFrench nurse (born 1925)
- Étienne-Émile Baulieu [Étienne Blum]French biochemist, physician and inventor of the abortion pill, dies at 98