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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]]. | ||
||1974: Jaroslav Hájek dies ... mathematician who worked in theoretical and nonparametric statistics. The Hájek–Le Cam convolution theorem is named after Hájek and Lucien Le Cam. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jaroslav+hájek | |||
||1977: James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. | ||1977: James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. | ||
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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.