Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
6th September 2018
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an abortion.
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel Of Death’, was transferred to begin work at Auschwitz concentration camp.
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of Mercy”.
Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.
On the 28th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
10th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019