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||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. | ||
||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. | ||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. Pic. | ||
||1930: Anatole Beck born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1930: Anatole Beck born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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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: Steganographic analysis of Spinning Thistle accidentally releases the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.