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File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1303: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] used to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1303: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] used to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1816: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1816: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | ||
||1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. | |||
||1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795) | |||
||1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) | |||
||1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. | |||
||1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | |||
||1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981) | |||
||1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998) | |||
||1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. | |||
||1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. | |||
||1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. | |||
||1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) | |||
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough." | File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1958: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough." | ||
||1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. | |||
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|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. | File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|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. | ||
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1988: Accidental release of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1988: Accidental release of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' declared Picture of the Day. | |||
||Chen Jingrun (March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. | |||
||2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. | |||
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' declared Picture of the Day. | |||
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Revision as of 16:59, 5 November 2017
1303: Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
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. Lex Luthor calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
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.
1988: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.