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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.
||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.


||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921)
||1842: Susan Jane Cunningham born ... mathematician.


||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.
||1862: Eduard Study born ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.


||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
||1868: The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.


||1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
||1881: Hermann Staudinger born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.


||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.
||1883: Kitaōji Rosanjin born ... 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.


||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.
||1888: Hans Thirring born ... 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.


||1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
||1893: Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu born ... engineer and businessman.


||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.
||1897: John Lighton Synge born ... 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.


||1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
||1898: Albert Percival Rowe born ... a radar pioneer and university vice-chancellor. A British physicist and senior research administrator, he played a major role in the development of radar before and during World War II. Pic: http://www.purbeckradar.org.uk/biography/rowe_jimmy.htm


||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.
||1907: Daniel Bovet born ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
||1907: Hassler Whitney born ... mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.


||1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
||1909: Charles Werner born ... cartoonist.


||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
||1912: Wernher von Braun born ... physicist and engineer.


||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.
||1914: Milbourne Christopher born ... magician and author.


||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
||1924: Kenneth N. Stevens born ... engineer and academic. 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.


||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  
||1924: Bette Nesmith Graham born ... inventor, invented Liquid Paper.


||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
||1924: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall dies ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  


||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.
||1933: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.


||James Earl Baumgartner (b. March 23, 1943) was an American mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic.
||1934: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev born ... 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.


||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.
||1943: James Earl Baumgartner born ... mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic.


||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
||1946: Gilbert Newton Lewis dies ... 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.
 
||1963: Thoralf Skolem dies ... mathematician and logician.


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]].
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]].


||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
||1965: NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).


||Léon Rosenfeld (d. 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist. Pic.
||1974: Léon Rosenfeld dies ... physicist and Marxist. Pic.


||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.
||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.


||1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic.


||1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist.


||1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
||1983: Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.


||1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
||1985: Richard Beeching dies ... physicist and engineer.


|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


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.


||2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934)
||2007: Paul Cohen dies ... mathematician and theorist.


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.
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.


||2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
||2013: Boris Berezovsky dies ... mathematician and businessman.


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]].
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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  • 1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

    1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

  • 1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

    2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

  • 2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

    2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

  • 2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

    2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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