November 21 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Inflight Smoking BanLaw banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by US President George H. W. Bush
- WHO says Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, in world's largest and fastest-moving epidemic
- Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge
- China reports new COVID-19 outbreaks, with 28,127 new cases, with half in Guangzhou and the municipality of Chongqing and public venues closed in Beijing and Shanghai
Born on this day
- Josiah BartlettAmerican physician and statesman (signed US Declaration of Independence), born in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1795)
- William BeaumontAmerican surgeon and father of gastric physiology, born in Lebanon, Connecticut (1785-1853)
- M Eleonore Lippits1st Dutch female missionary doctor, born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Nusret FişekTurkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (died 1990)
- Henri LaboritFrench physician and philosopher (died 1995)
- Victor ChangAustralian pioneering cardiac surgeon, born in Shanghai, China (d. 1986)
Died on this day
- Jan BrożekPolish mathematician, physician, and astronomer, dies at 67
- Eliyahu 'Eli' HurvitzIsraeli entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, dies at 79