Template:Selected anniversaries/March 27
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923: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi uses Gnomon algorithm to power new form of scrying engine.
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1954: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to generate diagramaceous soil, which will later be used to compensate victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.