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|| | ||1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767) | ||
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. | |||
File:John Venn.jpg|link=|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. | File:John Venn.jpg|link=|1834: Mathematician and philosopher [[John Venn (nonfiction)|John Venn]] born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. | ||
|| | ||1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (d. 1999) | ||
||1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||
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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.