Today in Medical History

November 26 in Medical History

19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Events

7
  1. 1991Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School studentsPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  2. 1992British geneticist Alec Jeffreys who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of LeicesterDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay
  3. 2018Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have produced the first genetically edited babyDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay
  4. 2018First multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola started in Democratic Republic of Congo announced by the WHODrug / VaccineOnThisDay
  5. 2021WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a "variant of concern", with its dozens of new mutations, after it emerges in Botswana and South AfricaDisease / EpidemicWikipedia
  6. 20222,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancerPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  7. 2022Rare public protests held in various Chinese cities over the governments restrictive COVID-19 policies, after 10 people die in an apartment fire in Urumqi, XinjiangDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

7
  1. 1828Robert BatteyAmerican surgeon and academic (died 1895)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1832Mary Edwards WalkerAmerican surgeon and women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War), born in Oswego, New York (d. 1919)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1904Armand FrappierFrench Canadian physician and microbiologist, born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada (d. 1991)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  4. 1937Boris YegorovSoviet physician and cosmonaut (Voskhod I), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 1994)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 1937John MooreBaron Moore of Lower Marsh, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 2019)Health leader / ActivistWikipedia
  6. 1939Art ThemenBritish jazz saxophonist and orthopedic surgeon, born in Manchester, EnglandPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia
  7. 1942Đặng Thùy TrâmVietnamese physician and author (died 1970)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia

Died on this day

5
  1. 1895George Edward DobsonIrish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (born 1848)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1917Elsie InglisScottish surgeon and suffragette (born 1864)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1985Vivien ThomasAmerican surgeon and academic (born 1910)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  4. 2003Stefan WulFrench sci-fi author (The Temple of the Past), dies at 81Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 2012Joseph MurrayAmerican surgeon and pioneer of organ transplantation (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990), dies from a stroke at 93Physician / SurgeonWikipedia

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.