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||1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934) | ||1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934) | ||
||Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856[1] – August 4, 1931) was an African American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery to repair a wound in the United States of America.[2][3][4][5] He also founded Provident Hospital---the first non-segregated hospital in the United States---in Chicago, Illinois. | |||
||Paul Ehrenfest (b. January 18, 1880) was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem. | ||Paul Ehrenfest (b. January 18, 1880) was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem. | ||
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1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1907: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Prison unable to contain supervillain Fugitive Rubies.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1923: crossword puzzle modified for use with Gnomon algorithm functions.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
1969: Vuvuzela of Doom announces world tour.
1997: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants "are overrated."