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||1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. | ||1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. | ||
||1588 | File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches. | ||
||1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782) | ||1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782) | ||
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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.
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.
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .