Time Capsule: January 21st, 1/21/2006, 12:30 am

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Reminder from the Calendar of

Time Capsule: January 21st

Saturday January 21, 2006

12:30 am

- 12:30 am

This event repeats every year.

Notes:

This day in 1677 saw the first medical publication in America (a pamphlet on smallpox), Boston .Noteworthy people born on this day:In 1743: Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton).In 1815: Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia). In 1840: Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician.In 1865: Heinrich E. Albers-Schönberg, German röntgenologist. In 1908: Bengt Strömgren Göteborg, Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud). In 1912: Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964).

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