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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.

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 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".
+||William Leonard Hunt (b. June 10, 1838), also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor. Pic.
 ||Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (b. 10 June 1887) was a Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic.