Template:Selected anniversaries/April 4
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1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1901: Charles Hermite publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
1977: Dave the Gamer announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.