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File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]]''' born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.


||1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1783)
File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1730: Mathematician and theorist '''[[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]]''' born. Bezout's ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'' will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.


||1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (d. 1859)
File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]]''' dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.


||Diederik Johannes Korteweg (b. 31 March 1848) was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.
File:The Glass Tweet Game.jpg|link=The Glass Tweet Game|1943: Publication of '''''[[The Glass Tweet Game]]''''', the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.


||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878) Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (Russian: Его́р Ива́нович Золотарёв) (March 31, 1847, Saint Petersburg – July 19, 1878, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician.
File:Explorer_1.jpg|link=Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|1970: The spacecraft '''[[Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|Explorer 1]]''' re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.


File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic '''[[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]]''' dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.


||Friedrich Julius Richelot (d. 31 March 1875) was a German mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic.


File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.


||1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1946)
||1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
||1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, OBE, MC, FRS[1] (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915
||1906 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
||Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (d. 31 March 1920) was a German mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced.
||1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
||1945 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
||1947 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and economist (d. 2011)
||1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1985: [[Pin Man]] publishes his autobiography.  He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.
||Friedrich Hermann Hund (d. 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.
File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies.  He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|2017: [[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
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  • 1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. Bezout's Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.

    1730: Mathematician and theorist Étienne Bézout born. Bezout's Théorie générale des équations algébriques will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation.

  • 1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.

    1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.

  • 1943: Publication of The Glass Tweet Game, the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.

    1943: Publication of The Glass Tweet Game, the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.

  • 1970: The spacecraft Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.

    1970: The spacecraft Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.

  • 2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.

    2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.

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