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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]].
||1685: René-François Walter de Sluse dies ... 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.
||1782: Baron Wilhelm von Biela born ... German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. Pic.
 
||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.


||Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE LLD (b. 19 March 1830), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.
||1830: Hubert Anson Newton born ... astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.


||1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
||1863: The ''SS Georgiana'', said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.


||1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
||1871: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger dies ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist.


||Rudolf Goldschmidt (March 19, 1876) was a German 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.


||1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
||1883: Norman Haworth born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
||1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.


||1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1900: Frédéric Joliot-Curie born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)


||1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
||1914: Leonidas Alaoglu born ... Canadian-American mathematician and theorist.


||1915 – Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
||1915: Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.


||1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
||1917: Laszlo Szabo born ... chess player.


||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.
||1928: Emil Johann Wiechert dies ... 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.


||Anatole Beck (b. 19 March 1930) was an American mathematician. Pic.
||1930: Anatole Beck born ... mathematician. Pic.


||Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel (b. 19 March 1837) was a German physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.
||1837: Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel born ... physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.


||1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
||1943: Frank Nitti commits suicide ... the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone.


||1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
||1945: World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.


||1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
||1950: Norman Haworth dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|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."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|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."


||1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
||1965: The wreck of the ''SS Georgiana'', valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
 
||1876: John Marshall born ... archaeologist who was director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1902-31). His aim was to bring to life Indian culture in the past by uncovering all possible details of her cities, tools, ornaments, laws and customs. In the 1920's, Marshall he began a systematic program of excavations that revealed Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, the two largest cities of the previously unknown Indus Valley Civilization, which he firmly believed was comparable in every way with the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. He excavated Taxila, Vaisali, Nalanda, Rajagriha and Sarnath; enacted the Ancient Monuments Act (1904), built up a library, reorganised publications and recruited Indians to high positions in the Survey. Pic.


File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.
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File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|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.
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|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.


||Chen Jingrun (March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||1996: Chen Jingrun dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.


||Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood (d. 19 March 2003) was a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic.
||2003: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood dies ... a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic.


||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.


||Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (d. 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Pic.
||2008: Sir Arthur Charles Clarke dies ... science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Pic.


File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' declared Picture of the Day.
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' declared Picture of the Day.
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Revision as of 11:22, 15 August 2018

  • 1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    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."

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.

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