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||1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. | ||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. | |||
||1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. | ||1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. | ||
Revision as of 20:39, 27 November 2017
1303: Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
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. Lex Luthor calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
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.
1988: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.