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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.
1278: Mathematician Yang Hui uses his famous Triangle to defeat the Forbidden ratio in single combat.
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.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Purple Racer reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of violet.

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 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:Yanghui triangle.gif|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1278: Mathematician uses his celebrated [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|Triangle]] to defeat the [[Forbidden ratio]] in single combat.
+File:Yanghui triangle.gif|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1278: Mathematician Yang Hui uses his famous [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|Triangle]] to defeat the [[Forbidden ratio]] in single combat.
 |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]].