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||René-François Walter de Sluse (d. 19 March 1685) was a Walloon mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him. | ||René-François Walter de Sluse (d. 19 March 1685) was a Walloon mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him. | ||
||Baron Wilhelm von Biela (b. March 19, 1782) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. Pic. | |||
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=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. | ||
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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. 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: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.