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|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]]. | |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]]. | ||
||1649: Giulio Aleni born ... Jesuit missionary and scholar. He was born in Leno near Brescia in Italy, at the time part of the Republic of Venice, and died at Yanping in China. He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600 and distinguished himself in his knowledge of mathematics and theology. No DOB. Pic: maps. | |||
||1692: Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". | ||1692: Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". | ||
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||1838: William Leonard Hunt born ... The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor. Pic. | ||1838: William Leonard Hunt born ... The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor. Pic. | ||
||1887: Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov born ... Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic search | ||1887: Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov born ... Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic search. | ||
||1895: Wilhelm Tolmé Runge born ... electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Wilhelm-Runge | ||1895: Wilhelm Tolmé Runge born ... electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Wilhelm-Runge | ||
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||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak born ... mathematician and academic known for her work in balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. Pic search | ||1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak born ... mathematician and academic known for her work in balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. Pic search. | ||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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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 | ||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. | ||
||1977: James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. Pic. | ||1977: James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. Pic. | ||
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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.