October 6 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
- Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath in Brooklyn
- LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in the state of California, and other states follow
- John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Los Angeles votes in some of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country, requiring vaccinations before people can enter indoor businesses and events
- 1st Malaria VaccineWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends the world's first malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, for children after a pilot program proves effective in Africa
Born on this day
- John CaiusEnglish physician, born in Norwich, England (d. 1573)
- Jean François GaultierFrench physician and botanist (kings physician for New France), born in La Croix-Avranchin, France (d. 1756)
- Florence B. SeibertAmerican biochemist and academic (died 1991)
- Alice TimanderSwedish dentist and red carpet queen, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2007)
- Paul PophamAmerican soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (died 1987)
- David BakerAmerican biologist and academic
Died on this day
- Leonardo ContiNazi physician, dies by hanging himself while awaiting trial for war crimes at Nuremberg at 45
- Otto MeyerhofGerman psychologist and biochemist (Nobel 1922), dies at 67