Template:Selected anniversaries/February 24

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  1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.

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  1755: Artist and social critic William Hogarth’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752.

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  1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

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  1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

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  1961: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm techniques which use hydrogen isotopes to diagnose and remediate crimes against chemical constants.

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  1967: Mathematician and APTO field engineer Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".

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  1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .

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  2016: Signed first edition of Eye Foot purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known APTO Artist-Engineer living in New Minneapolis, Canada."