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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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 ||1832: Alvan Graham Clark born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. Pic.
-||1832: Nikolaus Otto born ... engineer.
+||1832: Nikolaus Otto born ... engineer. Otto successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine. Pic.
-||1834: Karl Christian von Langsdorfdies ... mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer.
+||1834: Karl Christian von Langsdorf dies ... mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. Pic.
 File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1836: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".