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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.

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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
+||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: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.