September 12 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
- "Life Goes On," first television series featuring a major character with Down syndrome, "Corky" Thatcher played by Chris Burke, premieres on ABC
- The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
- American country singer-songwriter George Jones undergoes successful triple bypass surgery
- The bodies of more than 40 patients are discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans
- Shinzō Abe ResignsShinzō Abe announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of Japan due to worsening bowel disease
- Lady Gaga confirms her battle with chronic illness fibromyalgia
- Cartel Boss Granted House ArrestA Mexican court grants drug cartel head Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (76) house arrest due to health issues, to be transferred on September 13, 2022
- Event of InterestCanadian pop diva Celine Dion (58) performs her first full concert after a six-year health related hiatus, beginning an extended residency at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, France
Born on this day
- Manuel Espinosa BatistaColombian pharmacist and politician (died 1919)
- Dorothy Maud WrinchArgentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)
- Juscelino KubitschekPresident Brazil (1955-60), born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil (d. 1976)
- Ben PolakDutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Rais AmrohviPakistani poet and psychoanalyst, born in Amroha, India (d. 1988)
- Mark RosenzweigAmerican psychologist and academic (died 2009)
Died on this day
- Nicolaas TulpMayor of Amsterdam (1654-71), dies at 80
- Peter Mark RogetBritish lexicographer ( Roget 's Thesaurus) and inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard), dies at 90 (1779-1869)
- Erik Adolf von WillebrandFinnish physician (born 1870)
- Charlotte WolffGerman-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)
- Margaret McFarlandAmerican child psychologist (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), dies at 83 (1905-1988)
- Boris YegorovSoviet physician and cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
- Candace PertAmerican neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)
- Heiner GeißlerGerman politician (Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health, 1982–85), and party leader (General Secretary of Christian Democratic Union, 1977-89), dies at 87
- Drummond RennieBritish-American nephrologist and deputy editor (New England Journal of Medicine, 1977-81; Journal of the American Medical Association, 1983-2013), dies at 89