Template:Selected anniversaries/February 24

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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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  1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in The Eel Escapes Hydrolab occurred near the Bahamas.

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  2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies.