September 2 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dr. F. John Lewis performs the first successful human open-heart surgery using cooling blankets to induce hypothermia
- Jerry Lewis 's 3rd annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $1,401,876
- Jerry Lewis 's 9th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $16,129,213
- Jerry Lewis 's 20th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,181,652
- Smith Sentenced for Belushi DeathCathy Evelyn Smith is sentenced to three years for the drug related death of John Belushi
- Jerry Lewis 's 26th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,857
- Jerry Lewis 's 31st annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,146,555
- Jerry Lewis's 36th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $56,780,603
- Jerry Lewis's 42nd annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $63,759,478
- Jerry Lewis's 47th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $58,706,015
- Berlusconi Tests PositiveFormer Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for COVID-19 and is later hospitalized
Born on this day
- Andreas EmbirikosGreek surrealist poet known for "The Great Eastern", photographer and critic, born in Brăila, Romania (d. 1975)
- Alma HeflinAmerican commercial airplane test pilot and child psychologist, born in Winona, Missouri (d. 2000)
- Sidney PhillipsUSMC WW2 combat veteran, physician, and author (died 2015)
- Beulah BewleyEnglish physician and academic (died 2018)
Died on this day
- Maude AbbottCanadian physician (world expert on congenital heart disease), dies at 72
- Gustav AschaffenburgGerman psychiatrist (pioneer in criminology and forensic pathology), dies at 78
- John BowlbyBritish psychologist, dies at 83
- Barbara McClintockAmerican cytogeneticist (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of genetic transposition), dies at 90
- Viktor FranklAustrian neurologist and psychiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) and founder of logotherapy, dies at 92
- Jonathan MannAmerican physician and AIDS activist, dies in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 at 51
- Christiaan BarnardSouth African cardiac surgeon who performed the 1st heart transplant, dies from a severe asthma attack at 78 (1922-2001)