In 1955, Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) appointed a committee of…
In 1955, the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress, the first federal involvement in…
On Jul. 30, 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration was official with the Small Business Act to “aid,…
On Apr. 11, 1953, the Federal Security Agency (FSA) becomes the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare…
In 1953, the U.S. Congress enacted the Factory Inspection Amendment which clarified previous law and required the U.S….
On Sept. 23, 1951, the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) was established in Rome during the first…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
Sandia began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National…
In 1945, the U.S. Congress passed the Penicillin Amendment, modeled on the earlier Insulin Amendment. The former required…
On Nov. 17, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to to Vannevar Bush, head of the…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act, P.L. 410, 78th Congress, provided that “The National Cancer…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
In 1943, Mike Mansfield served Montana as Representative and Senator in the U.S. Congress for thiry-four years, and…
In 1941, the Insulin Amendment was passed by the U.S. Congress requiring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Oct. 31, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the first six buildings of the National Institutes of Health…
On Jun. 25, 1938, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with new provisions….
On Jan. 13, 1938, Dr. Carl Voegtlin became the first director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), established…
In 1938, Thomas Francis, Jr., MD and Jonas Salk, MD served as lead researchers at the University of…
In 1938, under the Wheeler-Lea Act passed by the U.S. Congress, the Federal Trade Commission is charged with…
On Nov. 16, 1937, the U.S. Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to give a full…
On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th U.S. Congress, was signed by…
On Apr. 29, 1937, U.S. Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas introduced H.R. 6767, “To promote research in the…
On Apr. 2, 1937, Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington introduced S. 2067, “Authorizing the Surgeon General of…
On Jun. 12, 1933, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate by New York Senator Royal S….
In 1933, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a complete revision of the obsolete 1906 Food and…
In 1930, the Ransdell Act changed the name of the Hygienic Laboratory to National Institute (singular) of Health…
In 1930, the name of the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration was shortened to Food and Drug Administration…
In 1930, the U.S. Congress passed the Plant Patent Act, recognizing for the first time that plant breeders’…
On May 29, 1929, Senator W. J. Harris, Georgia, introduced S. 4531, authorizing a survey in connection with…
On Feb. 28, 1929, the Walter Reed Medal, a military decoration of the U.S. Army was created by…