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1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1861: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters used to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in The Eel Escapes Hydrolab occurred near the Bahamas.
2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.
2001: Brion Gysin delivers eulogy for Claude Shannon.

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 ||1939 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
-File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1955: [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] uses ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 ||1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.