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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."

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 ||1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
+||Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, (b. 18 January 1901) (the family name is also transliterated as Petrovskii or Petrowsky), was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.
 ||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.