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1303: Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1958: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Lex Luthor calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. He postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
1988: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.

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 File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1816: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
+||Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE LLD (b. 19 March 1830), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.
 ||1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.