On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
On Sept. 4, 1969, the FDA issued a report that called birth control pills safe, despite a slight…
On Jul. 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, American astronauts, made history by becoming the first men…
In 1969, the American Chemical Society awarded The Priestley Medal to Kenneth S. Pitzer “to recognize distinguished services…
In 1969, the Lion’s Eye Bank of Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska was established at the University of…
In 1969, an antifreeze glycoprotein was discovered in fish living under the Antarctic icecaps. The discovery was groundbreaking…
In 1969, Robert Huebner and George Todaro proposed the oncogene hypothesis. An oncogene is a gene that has…
In 1969, Victor McKusick, widely acknowledged as the father of medical genetics, spent his career studying the genetic…
In 1969, the storage of platelets at room temperature was found to be feasible by S. Murphy and…
In 1969, The FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit sponsored the first attempt to develop a standardized, computerized data bank…
In 1969, a survey by the FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit reveals that only 28% of the approximately two…
In 1969, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began administering Sanitation Programs for milk, shellfish, food service, and…
In 1969, three rubella virus strains were licensed in the U.S.: HPV-77 strain grown in dog-kidney culture (Rubelogen…
In 1969, Max Delbruck of the California Institute of Technology was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 1969, live, attenuated rubella vaccines were first licensed in the U.S., and a vaccination program was established…
In 1969, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) opened its first permanent high-containment laboratory (HCL)…
In 1969, Massachusetts General Hospital cardiac surgeons collaborated in the development of an intra-aortic balloon catheter.
In 1969, the Michigan Cancer Foundation’s cancer registry began recording every incidence of cancer in southeastern Michigan. It…
In 1969, Alfred Hershey received the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his discovery that DNA is the molecule…
In 1969, the Medical College of South Carolina (MCSC) became the Medical University of South Carolina. All of…
In 1969, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was founded in Lubbock, Texas. In 1974 construction began on…
In 1969, Dr. Ed Webster joined the Swedish Tumor Institute as its first chemotherapy oncologist. The Instutute opened…
In 1969, Advanced Technology Laboratories was founded in 1969 and became one of the leading diagnostic ultrasound imaging…
On Dec. 3, 1968, the Medical University of South Carolina (MCSC) performed its first organ transplant (renal) and…
On Nov. 26, 1968, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a second live, further attenuated measles…
In 1968, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to William G. Young “to recognize distinguished services…
On May 3, 1968, Denton Cooley at Baylor University College of Medicine transplanted the heart of a fifteen…
On Apr. 7, 1968, the FDA Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and Treasury Department Bureau of Narcotics were…
On Mar. 8, 1968, the term Green Revolution was coined by William Gaud during a speech as administrator…
In March 1968, a reorganization of federal health programs placed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…