Events
1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
Births
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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