Template:Selected anniversaries/February 24: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
||1854 – A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. | ||1854 – A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. | ||
||Felix Bernstein (b. 24 February 1878), mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic. | |||
||1898 – Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (d. 1983) | ||1898 – Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (d. 1983) | ||
Revision as of 07:59, 5 March 2018
1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.
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.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .