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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
||1783: In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.


||1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
||1819: French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.


||1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895)
||1821: Johann Josef Loschmidt born ... physicist and chemist.


||Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (b. 15 March 1855) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
||1855: Charles Vernon Boys born ... physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.


||1860 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss bacteriologist and microbiologist (d. 1930)
||1860: Waldemar Haffkine born ... bacteriologist and microbiologist.


||1866 – Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, invented the Paper clip (d. 1910)
||1866: Johan Vaaler born ... inventor, invented the Paper clip.


||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born.
||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born.


||Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (d. 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor  
||1877: Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti dies ... inventor.


||1890 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980) Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Делоне́; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone.
||1890: Boris Delaunay born ... mathematician and mountaineer.


||1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
||1891: Joseph Bazalgette dies ... engineer and academic.


File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.


||1898 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
||1898: Henry Bessemer dies ... engineer and businessman.


File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
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File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.


||1930 – Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1930: Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||1930 – Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1930: Martin Karplus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||1951 – John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
||1951: John S. Paraskevopoulos dies ... astronomer and academic.


||Eduard Čech (d. 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.
||1960: Eduard Čech dies ... mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.


File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
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File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of interstellar [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of interstellar [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).


||1988 – Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)
||1988: Dmitri Polyakov dies ... general and spy.


||Francis Joseph Murray (d. March 15, 1996) was a mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.
||1993: Gustav Hedlund dies ... mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics. Pic.


||2004 – Bill Pickering, New Zealand-American scientist and engineer (b. 1910)
||1996: Francis Joseph Murray dies ... mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras.


||2004 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
||2004: Bill Pickering dies ... scientist and engineer.


||George Whitelaw Mackey (d. March 15, 2006) was an American mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.
||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2013 – James Bonk, American chemist and academic (b. 1931)
||2006: George Whitelaw Mackey dies ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.
 
||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic.


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  • 44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

    44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

  • 1519: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller publishes new edition of Universalis Cosmographia which accuses Egon Rhodomunde of commissioning crimes against cartography.

    1519: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller publishes new edition of Universalis Cosmographia which accuses Egon Rhodomunde of commissioning crimes against cartography.

  • 1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

    1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

  • 1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

    1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

  • 1912: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.

    1912: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.

  • 1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

    1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of interstellar crimes against mathematical constants.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of interstellar crimes against mathematical constants.

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