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||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. | ||
||1809: London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. | ||1809: London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. Pics. | ||
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | ||
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File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
||1854: A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. | ||1854: A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. Pic. | ||
||1878: Felix Bernstein born ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic. | ||1878: Felix Bernstein born ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic. | ||
||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer. | ||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic. | ||
||1917: World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States. | ||1917: World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States. | ||
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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."