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|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1303: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] used to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||René-François Walter de Sluse (d. 19 March 1685) was a Walloon mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him.  
File:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his ''byōbu'' folding screens, such as ''Pine Trees'' and ''Pine Tree and Flowering Plants''.


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.
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|1816: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent 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.
File:Emil_Wiechert.jpg|link=Emil Wiechert (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and geophysicist [[Emil Wiechert (nonfiction)|Emil Wiechert]] dies. Wiechert made 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.


||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.
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.


||1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] dies.  De Broglie 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.


||1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
||1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
||1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
||1915 – Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
||1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
||1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
||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.
||1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
||1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
||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]]. 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.
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1979: Accidental release of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|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.
||Chen Jingrun (March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood (d. 19 March 2003) was a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic.
||2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' declared Picture of the Day.
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  • 1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.

    1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.

  • 1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1928: Physicist and geophysicist Emil Wiechert dies. Wiechert made 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.

    1928: Physicist and geophysicist Emil Wiechert dies. Wiechert made 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.

  • 1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.

    1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.

  • 1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. De Broglie 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.

    1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. De Broglie 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.

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