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1790: Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1932: Broadway production based on famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing is a smash hit.
1973: Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration "Fightin'" Bert Russell reveals four terabytes of encrypted data.

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+||1979: Leonard Jimmie Savage dies ... mathematician and statistician. Savage's most noted work was the 1954 book ''The Foundations of Statistics'', in which he put forward a theory of subjective and personal probability and statistics which forms one of the strands underlying Bayesian statistics and has applications to game theory. He was one the participants to the Macy conferences on cybernetics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonard+jimmie+savage
 ||1989: Gerrit Bol dies ... mathematician, who specialized in geometry. He is known for introducing Bol loops in 1937, and Bol’s conjecture on sextactic points. Pic.