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||1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) | ||1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) | ||
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. | File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. Industrialist and alleged supervillain [[Baron Zersetzung]] declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment." | ||
||1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. | ||1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. |
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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. Industrialist and alleged supervillain Baron Zersetzung declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment."
1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
1979: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.