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| ||1685: René-François Walter de Sluse dies ... mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him.
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| ||1782: Baron Wilhelm von Biela born ... German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. Pic. | | 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''. |
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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. | | 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. |
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| ||1830: Hubert Anson Newton born ... 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. |
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| ||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. |
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| ||1871: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger dies ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist. Pic.
| | 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. |
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| ||1876: Rudolf Goldschmidt born ... engineer and inventor. In 1908 he developed a rotating radio-frequency machine, the Goldschmidt alternator, which was used as an early radio transmitter. He also invented a mechanical device, the Goldschmidt tone wheel, used in early radio receivers to receive the new continuous wave radiotelegraph signals. Pic.
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| ||1883: Norman Haworth born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
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| ||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1914: Leonidas Alaoglu born ... Canadian-American mathematician and theorist ... known for his result, called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem. Pic: http://www.math.caltech.edu/events/alaoglu14.html
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| ||1915: Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
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| ||1917: Laszlo Szabo born ... chess player.
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| ||1918: The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
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| ||1928: Emil Johann Wiechert dies ... 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.
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| ||1930: Anatole Beck born ... mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1837: Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel born ... physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.
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| ||1941: Nikolaĭ Semenovich Kurnakov dies ... chemist who was internationally recognized as the originator of physicochemical analysis and he was one of the principal founders of the platinum industry in the USSR. A chemical reaction that he pioneered, known as the Kurnakov test, is still used to differentiate cis from trans isomers of divalent platinum and is his best-known contribution to coordination chemistry. Pic.
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| ||1943: Frank Nitti commits suicide ... the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone.
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| ||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.
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| ||1950: Norman Haworth dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| 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."
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| ||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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| ||1876: John Marshall born ... archaeologist who was director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1902-31). His aim was to bring to life Indian culture in the past by uncovering all possible details of her cities, tools, ornaments, laws and customs. In the 1920's, Marshall he began a systematic program of excavations that revealed Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, the two largest cities of the previously unknown Indus Valley Civilization, which he firmly believed was comparable in every way with the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. He excavated Taxila, Vaisali, Nalanda, Rajagriha and Sarnath; enacted the Ancient Monuments Act (1904), built up a library, reorganised publications and recruited Indians to high positions in the Survey. Pic.
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| 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.
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| File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1979: Accidental release of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1996: Chen Jingrun dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
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| ||2003: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood dies ... 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.
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| ||2008: GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
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| ||2008: Sir Arthur Charles Clarke dies ... science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Pic.
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| Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].
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| ||2018: Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and worked on information retrieval.[4] He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures. He was best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacobus+verhoeff
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