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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.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Purple Racer reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of violet.

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 ||1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak born ... mathematician and academic.
+||1942: SYDNEY, NSW. 1942-06-10. THE SPENT 17.7 INCH TORPEDO, EITHER TYPE 96 OR 97, FIRED BY THE UNIDENTIFIED JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE (KNOWN AS MIDGET A), WHICH RAN ASHORE AT GARDEN ISLAND DURING THE ATTACK ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 31 MAY 1942. NOTE THE BLAST WALL OF SANDBAGS IN THE BACKGROUND, CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO THE TORPEDO BEING DRAGGED FURTHER IN. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION). Pic.
 ||1944: Willem Jacob van Stockum dies ... mathematician and academic.