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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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