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||1719: Johann Gottlob Lehmann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic.
||1719: Johann Gottlob Lehmann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic.


||1753: Gottfried Silbermann dies ... builder of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and fortepianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=gottfried+silbermann
||1753: Gottfried Silbermann dies ... builder of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and fortepianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two. Pic search.


File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1833: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:John Venn.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|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=John Venn (nonfiction)|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.
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||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Pic.
||1909: Saunders Mac Lane born ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Pic.


||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=aleksandr+danilovich+aleksandrov
||1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov born ... mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer. Pic search.


||1920: Mathematician and academic Karl Rohn dies.  He studied algebraic space curves and completed the classification work of Georges Halphen and Max Noether. Pic.
||1920: Mathematician and academic Karl Rohn dies.  He studied algebraic space curves and completed the classification work of Georges Halphen and Max Noether. Pic.
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||1921: Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis.
||1921: Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis.


||1926: George Irving Bell born ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Irving+Bell&oq=George+Irving+Bell
||1924: Mohamed M. Atalla born ...engineer, physical chemist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. His pioneering work in semiconductor technology laid the foundations for modern electronics. Pic.
 
||1926: George Irving Bell born ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer. Pic search.


||1927: Daniel Marinus Kan born ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.
||1927: Daniel Marinus Kan born ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.
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||1948: Mileva Maric dies ... physicist. Einstein collaboration debate, love child unknown fate. Pic.
||1948: Mileva Maric dies ... physicist. Einstein collaboration debate, love child unknown fate. Pic.
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1963: Cryptanalyst, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on the application of data processing technology to the interpretation of [[cryptographic numina]].


||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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||2013: Daniel Marinus Kan dies ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.
||2013: Daniel Marinus Kan dies ... mathematician working in homotopy theory. Pic.


File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2016: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
|File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for five hundred thousand dollars.
File:Fire Dance.jpg|link=Fire Dance (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Fire Dance (nonfiction)|Fire Dance]]'' reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]].


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  • 1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

    1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

  • 1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

    1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

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