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| ||1722: Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche born ... astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.
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| File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | | File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. |
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| ||1754: Jurij Vega born ... mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.
| | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. |
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| ||1769: William 'Strata' Smith born ... was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society. Financially ruined, Smith spent time in debtors' prison. It was only late in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments, and became known as the "Father of English Geology". Pic.
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| ||1775: American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
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| ||1795: Bernt Michael Holmboe born ... Norwegian mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1806: After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
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| ||1816: Carlo Amoretti dies ... ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. Pic.
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| ||1816: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt dies ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
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| ||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic.
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| ||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921)
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| ||Eduard Study (b. March 23, 1862), was a German mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.
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| ||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
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| ||1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
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| ||Kitaōji Rosanjin (b. March 23, 1883) was the pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur.
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| ||Hans Thirring (b. March 23, 1888) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918.
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| ||1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
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| ||John Lighton Synge (b. 23 March 1897) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
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| ||1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
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| ||Hassler Whitney (b. March 23, 1907) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.
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| ||1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
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| ||1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
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| ||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
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| ||Kenneth N. Stevens (b. March 23, 1924) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group[2] in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic.
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| ||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
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| ||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.
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| ||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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| ||Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (b. 23 March 1934) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic.
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| ||James Earl Baumgartner (b. March 23, 1943) was an American mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic.
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| ||Gilbert Newton Lewis (d. March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding.
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| ||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
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| File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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| ||Léon Rosenfeld (d. 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist. Pic.
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| ||1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
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| ||1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
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| ||1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
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| ||1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. | | File:John_Lighton_Synge.jpg|link=John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic [[John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|John Lighton Synge]] born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity. |
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| ||1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913) | | File:Middle-earth Farm.jpg|link=Middle-earth Farm|1945: First publication of '''''[[Middle-earth Farm]]''''', an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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| |File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
| | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes. |
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| File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. | | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. |
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| ||2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934)
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| File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
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| ||2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
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| File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|Game of Chance]]'' sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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