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||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic. | ||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic. | ||
||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. | ||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+McKinly | ||
||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||
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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. He is known as "the father of information theory".
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .
2016: Signed first edition of Eye Foot purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known APTO Artist-Engineer living in New Minneapolis, Canada."