Today in Medical History

September 9 in Medical History

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

Events

8
  1. 1861Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only female officer) by the Confederate States ArmyHealthcare institution / ProfessionOnThisDay
  2. 2014Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, undergoes prostate surgeryNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  3. 2020Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 900,000, with the US having the most deaths at 190,589Disease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  4. 2020RageDonald Trump purposely downplays the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward 's new book "Rage"Disease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  5. 202117 hospital patients die after heavy rainfall and flooding in Tula, central MexicoHealthcare institution / ProfessionOnThisDay
  6. 2021Federal Vaccine MandatesUS President Joe Biden announces widespread COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors, and large employers, affecting 100 million peoplePublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  7. 2024Catherine, Princess of Wales , reveals in a video message she has completed her preventive chemotherapy treatmentNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  8. 2024World's first whole-eye and face transplant is declared successful for a 47-year-old Arkansas man more than a year after the operationSurgery / Procedure / DeviceOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1737Luigi GalvaniItalian physician and physicist (died 1798)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1823Joseph LeidyAmerican paleontologist and academic (died 1891)Medical scientistWikipedia
  3. 1923Daniel Carleton GajdusekAmerican virologist, (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on transmissibility of kuru), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2008)Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 1924Russell M. NelsonAmerican surgeon and the 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2018-25), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2025)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 1929Ruth PfauGerman nun and doctor known for treating leprosy patients in Pakistan, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 2017)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  6. 1931Ida Mae MartinezAmerican wrestler (died 2010)Nurse / MidwifeWikipedia
  7. 1931Shirley SummerskillEnglish physician and politicianPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia
  8. 1935Gopal BarathamSingaporean author known for "A Candle or the Sun" and neurosurgeon, born in Singapore (d. 2002)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia

Died on this day

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  1. 1770Bernard Siegfried Albinus [Weiss]German surgeon and anatomist (1st to link vascular system with the fetus), dies at 73Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  2. 1893Friedrich Traugott KützingGerman pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (born 1807)Dentist / Pharmacist / AlliedWikipedia
  3. 1941Hans SpemannGerman embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), dies at 72Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 1981Jacques LacanFrench psychoanalyst and semanticist, dies at 80Psychiatry / PsychologyWikipedia
  5. 1996Jack PepysSouth African British immunologist (allergy and allergic diseases), dies at 82Medical scientistOnThisDay
  6. 1999David Stafford-ClarkEnglish psychiatrist, dies at 83Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay
  7. 2020Shere Hite [Shirley Diana Gregory]American-German sex therapist (The Hite Report), dies at 77Psychiatry / 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.