Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with June 8.

Events

1981 — The US CDC established the Task Force on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections to investigate unusual clusters of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma in young, previously healthy men (many reported as gay) in California and New York. The first organised national surveillance framework for what would soon be recognised as the AIDS epidemic

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Births

1870 – Max Brödel (1870–1941), German medical illustrator; described Brödel’s Suture and introduced carbon dust technique for half-tone realism and depth in illustrations

1888 – Friedericke Mathilde Saur (1888-1973), German born, American pathologist; worked alongside George Hoyt Whipple to describe Whipple disease (1907) and fundamentally shape our understanding of anaemia and liver therapy

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Deaths

1951 – Eugène Fiset (1874-1951), Canadian physician, Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, Member of Parliament, the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, and the 3rd Canadian Surgeon General.

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Further reading

• A Timeline of HIV and AIDS