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File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. | File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. | ||
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|2001: [[Brion Gysin]] delivers eulogy for [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]]. | |File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|2001: [[Brion Gysin]] delivers eulogy for [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]]. | ||
||2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. | ||2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. | ||
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1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in The Eel Escapes Hydrolab occurred near the Bahamas.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.