November 6 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
- Indian government declares levels of air pollution in Delhi an emergency situation, closing schools and construction sites
- Human longevity is less than 10% dependent on genetics, according to a study published in the journal "Genetics" and based on data from 400 million people from Ancestry.com
- Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC.
Born on this day
- Cesare LombrosoItalian psychiatrist and criminologist, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire (d. 1909)
- James NaismithCanadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), born in Almonte, Ontario (1861-1939)
- Bodil Schmidt-NielsenDanish-born American physiologist who was the first female president of the American Physiological Society, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (1918-2015)
- Else AckermannGerman physician and pharmacologist (died 2019)
- Ariel HenryHaitian neurosurgeon and politician (President of Haiti 2021-), born in Tabarré, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
Died on this day
- John BevisEnglish physician and astronomer (discovered Crab Nebula), dies at 75
- Karol MarcinkowskiPolish physician and social activist, dies at 46
- James HectorScottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon, dies at 73
- Emil StarkensteinCzech pharmacologist and academic (born 1884)
- Hans von Euler-ChelpinGerman-born Swedish biochemist who investigated the fermentation of sugar and enzymes (Nobel 1929), dies at 91
- Alexander S. WienerAmerican physician known for his work in immunohematology (Rh factor in blood), dies at 69 (1907-1976)
- Patience EdneyBritish nurse and communist, dies at 85
- James WatsonAmerican molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with Francis Crick (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), geneticist and zoologist, dies at 97 (1928-2025)