Template:Selected anniversaries/March 24

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<gallery mode="traditional"> File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen uses scrying engine technology to forecast the Pi disaster. File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1896: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov uses radio waves to transmit a message between different campus buildings in St Petersburg. File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard (nonfiction) dies. He made record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invented of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives to explore the ocean. File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1926: Hilbert curve and Enrico Fermi share research data, discover new class of scrying engine. File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: Brainiac Explains lecture series implicated in crimes against mathematical constants. <gallery>