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||1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. | ||1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. | ||
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. He is known as "the father of information theory". | ||
|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]]. | ||
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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 .