Today in Medical History

October 29 in Medical History

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

Events

6
  1. 1863International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)Healthcare institution / ProfessionWikipedia
  2. 1901In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphineHealthcare institution / ProfessionOnThisDay
  3. 1958Dr. F. Mason Sones is the first doctor to perform a coronary angiogramSurgery / Procedure / DeviceOnThisDay
  4. 19882,000 US anti-abortion protesters are arrested for blocking clinicsPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  5. 2020India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527Disease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  6. 2020South Australian government axes the Adelaide 500 from 2021 Supercars Championship due to COVID-19 and falling revenueDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1463Alessandro AchilliniItalian physician and philosopher, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1512)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1915William BerenbergAmerican physician and academic (died 2005)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1920Baruj BenacerrafVenezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 - discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), born in Caracas, Venezuela (d. 2011)Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 1923Carl DjerassiAustrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill , born in Vienna, Austria (1923-2015)Medical scientistWikipedia
  5. 1932Joyce GouldBaroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politicianDentist / Pharmacist / AlliedWikipedia
  6. 1944Mehmet HaberalTurkish surgeon and academicPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia
  7. 1949Raphael Carl LeeAmerican surgeon and academicPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia
  8. 1968Johann Olav KossNorwegian speed skater (Olympics 3 gold-1994), born in Drammen, NorwayPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia

Died on this day

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  1. 1932Joseph BabinskiPolish-French neurologist (Babinski reflex), dies at 74Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1933Albert CalmetteFrench physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), dies at 70Medical scientistWikipedia
  3. 1971Arne TiseliusSwedish chemist, 1948 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, dies at 69Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 2015Abe Jan KoldijkDutch physician for the Nazi regime (Limburg's family doctor), dies at 94Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  5. 2020Travis RoyAmerican philanthropist and disability advocate who was paralysed during a Boston University ice hockey game, dies of surgery complications at 45Health leader / ActivistOnThisDay
  6. 2025Arline BronzaftAmerican environmental psychologist and noise expert (The Effect of Elevated Train Noise On Reading Ability), dies of cancer at 89Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay

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.