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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) | ||
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)| | File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1855: Chemist, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] uses his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]]. | ||
||Daniel Hale Williams (b. January 18, 1856) 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. He also founded Provident Hospital---the first non-segregated hospital in the United States---in Chicago, Illinois. | ||Daniel Hale Williams (b. January 18, 1856) 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. He also founded Provident Hospital---the first non-segregated hospital in the United States---in Chicago, Illinois. | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 17 January 2018
532: The Nika riots fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead.
1855: Chemist, physicist, and crime-fighter Henri Victor Regnault uses his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1873: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin dies. In 1826 created the earliest known choropleth map.
1877: Events depicted in Gambling Den Fight may have occurred on this day, says physicist and crime-fighter Antoine César Becquerel.
1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1923: First use of crossword puzzles powered by Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.