Template:Selected anniversaries/March 31
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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1985: Pin Man publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2017: SOEP cartel threatens to shoot stomach oil smugglers on sight.