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Discovery of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) (1982) - Yves-Alain Barde and Hans Thoenen isolated BDNF, a protein crucial for neural growth and synaptic plasticity that has become central to understanding learning, memory, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Birth of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852) - Spanish neuroscientist considered the father of modern neuroscience, whose detailed drawings of neurons supported the neuron doctrine and earned him the Nobel Prize.

First Comprehensive Cognitive Rehabilitation Program (1979) - Launch of the first standardized cognitive rehabilitation protocol for patients with traumatic brain injury, developed at New York University Medical Center.