On this day, Eddie McCarthy, USA, broke his arm in Dartmouth. As the result of this incident, he was first sent to hospital, and then entered the history of world science. His name was widely mentioned in newspapers, he became a fashionable figure in his city, and it happened because he had become the first person in the world whose problem has been correctly diagnosed with an X-ray image. Mind you: two weeks had barely passed from the first newspaper article about the sensational rays with no barriers, and only two and a half months had passed from the day of their discovery.