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File:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies. He 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:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies. He 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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||1871: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger dies ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist. Pic. | ||1871: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger dies ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1875: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume dies ... instrument maker and businessman. Pic. | |||
||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. | ||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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||2008: GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. | ||2008: GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. | ||
||2008: | ||2008: Arthur C. Clarke dies ... science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Pic. | ||
Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]]. | ||
||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. | ||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. 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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1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. He 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. 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. Industrialist and alleged supervillain Baron Zersetzung declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment."
1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
1979: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Spinning Thistle accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.