🔬 Insulin is first given to a patient (1922)
Where: Toronto, Canada
📅 On This Day: January 11
January 11, 1922: Insulin is first given to a patient. On 11 January 1922, in Toronto, Canada, a 13-year-old boy with diabetes named Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive insulin. After the researchers purified the medicine, he got better. Since then, insulin has helped millions of people around the world.
✨ More events on this day
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- 1908 🌿 US President Theodore Roosevelt made the Grand Canyon a national monument to protect it; a few years later it became a national park. Grand Canyon →
- 1935 🧭 Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California, crossing more than 3,800 kilometres of the Pacific Ocean alone.
🧠 Question of the day
How old was the first boy to get insulin?
- 13
- 30
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Answer: 13
Questions
What happened on January 11?
January 11, 1922: Insulin is first given to a patient. It happened in Toronto, Canada.
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