November 9 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
- Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
- At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- PM Eisaku SatōEisaku Satō becomes Prime Minister of Japan after Hayato Ikeda resigns due to ill health
- Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
- Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
- US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million, with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000.
- U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
Born on this day
- Johannes NarssiusDutch physician and poet (died 1637)
- Mark AkensideEnglish poet and physician, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1770)
- Bernhard von LangenbeckGerman surgeon and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, born in Padingbüttel, Germany (d. 1887)
- Sally Louisa TompkinsAmerican nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born in Mathews City, Virginia (d. 1916)
- Louis LewinGerman toxicologist (father of psychopharmacologist), born in Tuchel, West Prussia (d. 1929)
- Florence SabinAmerican Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, born in Central City, Colorado (d. 1953)
- Otfrid FoersterGerman neurologist, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1941)
- Viktor BrackGerman Nazi physician and war criminal, born in Haaren, Rhine Province, German Empire (d. 1948)
- Valery ShumakovRussian surgeon and transplantologist (died 2008)
- Paul CameronAmerican psychologist and sex researcher, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Julie Beckett [née O’Connell]American disability rights activist (Katie Beckett Waivers) and co-founder of Family Voices, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 2022)
Died on this day
- Har Gobind KhoranaIndian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), dies at 89