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||671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. | |||
File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|940: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] born. His ''Almagest'' will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death. | File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|940: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] born. His ''Almagest'' will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death. | ||
File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] causes outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] causes outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". | |||
||1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (b. 1722) | |||
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)French Revolution]]: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship. | |||
File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1836: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". | File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1836: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". | ||
||Alvan Graham Clark (b. July 10, 1832) was an American astronomer and telescope-maker. | |||
||1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891) | |||
||1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775) | |||
||1913 – Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1993) | |||
||1924 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1938 – Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Indian mathematician and academic (d. 2009) | |||
||1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1910) | |||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1972: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the history of [[high-energy literature]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1972: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the history of [[high-energy literature]]. | ||
||1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. | |||
||1994 – China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report. | |||
||2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. | |||
||2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940) | |||
||2003 – The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mis | |||
||2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (b. 1915) | |||
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Revision as of 12:45, 29 October 2017
940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1571: New method for predicting lottery winners causes outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1793: French Revolution (nonfiction)French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1972: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature.