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||1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
||1535 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)


||1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)
||1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)
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File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.


||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
||1811 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (d. 1868)
 
||1814 – Anton Nuhn, German anatomist and academic (d. 1889)
 
||1828 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (d. 1904)
 
||1845 – Arthur Cowper Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1894)
 
||Louis Jacques Thénard (d. 21 June 1857), was a French chemist.
 
||1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932)
 
||1870 – Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915)
 
||1870 – Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer (d. 1959)
 
||1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
 
||1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956)
 
||1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956)
 
||1896 – Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung (d. 1967)
 
||1912 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2000)
 
||1915 – Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer (d. 1993)
 
||1916 – Herbert Friedman, American physicist and astronomer (d. 2000)


||1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
||1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
||1945 – Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine


File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] dies.
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] dies.
||1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)


File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
||1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
||1970 – Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)


||1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
||1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
||1987 – Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)
||1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)


||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.


||2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
||2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
||2013 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (b. 1928)


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