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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]] . | ||
File:Eye Foot.jpg|link=Eye Foot (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Eye Foot (nonfiction)|Eye Foot]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known [[APTO]] Artist-Engineer living in [[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 .
2016: Signed first edition of Eye Foot purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known APTO Artist-Engineer living in New Minneapolis, Canada."