November 28 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- NHL goalie Georges Vézina collapses during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and dies four months later of tuberculosis
- Music HistorySpalding Gray 's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, NYC, for a limited run of 13 performances
- James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
- Biden Injures FootJoe Biden injures his foot while playing with his dog Major
- 50 million birds are killed in a record-breaking outbreak of avian flu across the US, according to the Department of Agriculture, amid similar outbreaks elsewhere around the world
Born on this day
- Jan PalfijnFlemish physician and inventor (obstetrical forceps), born in Kortrijk, Flanders (d. 1730)
Died on this day
- Hartmann SchedelGerman humanist, historian and physician, compiled "The Nuremburg Chronicle", dies at 74
- Karl Earnest von BaerEstonian-German embryologist (founding father of embryology), dies at 84
- James NaismithCanadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), dies at 78 (1861-1939)
- Frank OlsonAmerican biologist and chemist (born 1910)
- Choh Hao LiChinese-American bio-chemist (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
- Lloyd J. OldAmerican immunologist and academic (born 1933)