General History		History of Medicine
Year	Event	Year	Event
1870-1914	"Scramble" for Africa, Southeast Asia; China	1876	Koch discovers anthrax bacterium 1879 anthrax vaccine
		1880	Pasteur discovers cholera immuniz. Laveran discovers malarial parasite
		1883	Koch cholera bacillus Klebs diphtheria
		1884	Gaffkey typhoid
		1885	Pasteur cures child w/ rabies
		1887	David Bruce undulent fever
		1889	Nocolaier tetanus
		1894	Yersin & Kitasato discover plague
		1895	Roentgen discovers x-rays
1898	Spanish-American War
		1900	Walter Reed & Yellow fever virus
		1901	Landsteiner discovers blood groups
		1902	US Public Health Service created
		1910	Flexner Report on medical education
1914	WWI begins
1917	Russian Revolution
1919	Peace Conference League of Nations	1922	Banting, et al. discover insulin
1929	Great Depression begins	1929	Fleming discovers penicillin
		1930	NIH created
		1932	Tuskegee syphilis study begins 1972 story in NYT causes outcry
1933	Hitler becomes German chancellor Roosevelt becomes US president
		1935	Gerhard Domagk treats daughter with prontosil (sulfa) for strep infection
1939	WWII begins in Europe
		1940	Selman Waksman discovers actinomycin
1941	US enters WWII
1945	WWII ends ENIAC and A-bomb first used
		1946	Nazi doctors trial begins at Nuremberg 1947 verdict delivered, including Code for "permissible medical experiments"
1947	Cold War begins Independence for India (decolonization begins)
		1952	first open heart surgery
		1953	Watson and Crick describe DNA structure
		1955	Salk Polio vaccine
		1956	first kidney transplant
1957	European Common Market created
1961	Berlin Wall
1964	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution begins Vietnam War
		1971	Nixon signs National Cancer Act
1975	US evacuates Saigon
		1981	AIDS name given to disease affecting 26 patients
1989	Fall of Berlin Wall, end of Cold War