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||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. | ||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. | ||
||1799: | ||1799: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg dies ... 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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||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies. | ||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies. | ||
||1989 | ||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. | ||
||1993: Chaim Leib Pekeris dies ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675 | |||
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: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". | ||
| | ||2007: Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. | ||
File:Flying Diner.jpg|link=Flying Diner|1963: The [[Flying Diner]] announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] . | File:Flying Diner.jpg|link=Flying Diner|1963: The [[Flying Diner]] announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] . | ||
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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 .