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||1933: The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier. | ||1933: The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier. | ||
||1935: Oktay Sinanoğlu born ... chemist and academic. | ||1935: Oktay Sinanoğlu born ... chemist and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=oktay+sinanoğlu | ||
||1939: The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London. | ||1939: The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London. | ||
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1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.