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||1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake
File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. La Hire will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.


File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1604: Mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] publishes new work on [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata theory]] and its application to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ferdinand Berthoud.jpg|link=Ferdinand Berthoud (nonfiction)|1727: Scientist and watchmaker [[Ferdinand Berthoud (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Berthoud]] born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers.


File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
File:Augustus_De_Morgan.jpg|link=Augustus De Morgan (nonfiction)|1871: Mathematician and academic [[Augustus De Morgan (nonfiction)|Augustus De Morgan]] dies. De Morgan formulated two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.


||1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)
File:William C. Davidon.jpg|link=William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist [[William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|William C. Davidon]] born. Davidon will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.


||Ferdinand Berthoud, born on March 18, 1727 in Plancemont-sur-Couvet (Canton of Neuchâtel), was a French scientist and watchmaker.
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] born. Plimpton will be famous for "participatory journalism": competing in professional sporting events, playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a circus trapeze act, and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
 
||1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
 
||Joseph-Émile Barbier (b. 1839) was a French astronomer and mathematician,[1] known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width.
 
||1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
 
||1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917)
 
||1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) Augustus De Morgan (/dɪ ˈmɔːrɡən/;[1] 27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
 
||1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)
 
||Walter Andrew Shewhart (b. March 18, 1891) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control
 
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium compounds]] to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
 
||1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
 
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] born.
File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=|2017: ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' declared Picture of the Day.
 
||1930 – James J. Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
 
||1963: Mathematician Tan Lei (Chinese: 谭蕾) born.  specialising in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
 
||1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
 
||1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
 
||1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
 
||Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (d. 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. The book that he and Bertha Swirles wrote Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.
 
||1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
 
||Dirk Polder (d. March 18, 2001) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force.
 
||2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)


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  • 1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. La Hire will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.

    1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. La Hire will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.

  • 1727: Scientist and watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers.

    1727: Scientist and watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers.

  • 1871: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan dies. De Morgan formulated two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.

    1871: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan dies. De Morgan formulated two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.

  • 1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon born. Davidon will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.

    1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon born. Davidon will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.

  • 1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born. Plimpton will be famous for "participatory journalism": competing in professional sporting events, playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a circus trapeze act, and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

    1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born. Plimpton will be famous for "participatory journalism": competing in professional sporting events, playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a circus trapeze act, and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

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