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||1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (d. 1796) | ||1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (d. 1796) | ||
||Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (b. 24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. | |||
||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (d. 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. | ||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (d. 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. | ||
||1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review. | ||1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review. | ||
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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.
2001: Brion Gysin delivers eulogy for Claude Shannon.