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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.

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 ||Emil Johann Wiechert (d. 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron.
+||Anatole Beck (b. 19 March 1930) was an American mathematician. Pic.
 ||Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel (b. 19 March 1837) was a German physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.