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||1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) | ||1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) | ||
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. | |||
||1988 – Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1894) | ||1988 – Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1894) | ||
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1572: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses scrying engine make improved astronomical observations.
1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1864: Wallace War-Heels rescues lost band of travellers, gets them safely to Kansas City, then robs them of one-third of their money and possessions.
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.