Today in Medical History

November 29 in Medical History

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

Events

7
  1. 1349Jews of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg are massacred amidst accusations of them causing the Bubonic Plague, part of a wave of pogroms across Western EuropeDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  2. 1847Cayuse Native Americans kill missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and 12 others at Waiilatpu Mission in Oregon Country due to suspicion that they poisoned 200 Cayuse peopleDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  3. 1937Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands is injured in an auto accident in Diemen, NetherlandsNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  4. 1944Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore perform the first open-heart surgery, known as the "blue baby operation"Surgery / Procedure / DeviceOnThisDay
  5. 2003Mandela's AIDS ConcertsThe first of Nelson Mandela 's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts held at Green Point Stadium, CapetownDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  6. 2022Malawi begins historic campaign against malaria by vaccinating children under five using the RTS,S vaccine (thought to provide 30% protection)Drug / VaccineOnThisDay
  7. 2023Thalidomide Tragedy ApologyAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issues a national apology to people affected by the thalidomide morning sickness drug over 60 years agoDrug / VaccineOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1825Jean-Martin CharcotFrench neurologist, born in Paris, France (d. 1893)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1857Theodor EscherichGerman-Austrian pediatrician, discovered bacteria E. coli, born in Ansbach, Bavaria (d. 1911)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1874Antonio Egas MonizPortuguese neurosurgeon (Nobel Prize 1949 for developing lobotomy procedure), born in Avanca, Portugal (d. 1955)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  4. 1915Earl Wilber SutherlandJr., American pharmacologist (Nobel Prize Medicine or Physiology 1971 - cyclic AMP), born in Burlingame, Kansas (d. 1974)Medical scientistOnThisDay
  5. 1919Mildred RebstockAmerican medicinal chemist (died 2011)Medical scientistWikipedia
  6. 1933David ReubenAmerican psychiatrist and author (Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)), born in Chicago, IllinoisPsychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay

Died on this day

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  1. 1847Marcus WhitmanAmerican physician and missionary (Oregon Trail), killed at 45Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1932Abdullah CevdetKurdish-Turkish physician and academic (born 1869)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1995Irene IghodarSierra Leonean doctor and social reformer, dies at 79Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay

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.