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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: 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.

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 ||1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
-||James Short FRS (10 June O.S. (21 June N.S.) 1710) was a Scottish mathematician and manufacturer of optical instruments, principally telescopes. During his 35 year career as a telescope-maker he produced approximately 1,360 scientific instruments.
 ||1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (b. 1722)