Events
240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Crawford Long.
1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
Births
1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician
Deaths
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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