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File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|[[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] planning new autobiographical film, asks [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] to play the title role.
 
File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|[[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film.
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] born. He will write  ''Elim'' (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
 
File:Recreations_Mathematiques_et_Physiques.png|link=Jacques Ozanam (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician [[Jacques Ozanam (nonfiction)|Jacques Ozanam]] born.  Ozanam's ''Récréations mathématiques et physiques'' (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.
 
||1801: Julius Plücker born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
 
File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1806:  Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
 
||1818: Vincenzo Brunacci dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
File:Julius Petersen.jpg|link=Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|1839: Mathematician [[Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|Julius Petersen]] born.  His famous paper ''Die Theorie der regulären graphs'' will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
 
||1840: Ernst Otto Schlick born ... engineer and author ... naval gyroscope stabilization. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernst+Otto+Schlick
 
||1871: The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
 
||1883: The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
 
||1884: The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
 
||1878: Crawford Long dies ... surgeon and pharmacist ... sulfur ether anaesthetic. Pic.
 
||1884: Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post born ... naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic.
 
||1888: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1888: Peter Stoner born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+stoner+mathematician
 
||1897: Georg Wittig born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1902: Ernst Schröder dies ... mathematician and academic.
 
||1902: Barbara McClintock born ... scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. Pic.
 
||1903: The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
 
||1904: Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
 
||1908: Vera Atkins born ... intelligence officer ... worked in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. Pic.
 
||1910: Julius Weingarten dies ... mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations. Pic.
 
||1911: Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
 
John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
 
||1920: Raymond Lemieux born ... chemist and academic. Pic.
 
||1927: Robert Kraft born ... astronomer and academic. Kraft performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8. Pic.
 
||1927: Lars Svenonius born ... logician and philosopher. He contributed to model theory;  Svenonius' Theorem states that if the interpretation of a predicate in any model of a first-order theory is invariant under permutations ("automorphisms") of the model fixing the other predicates, then the interpretation of that predicate is definable in every model by a formula involving only the other predicates; furthermore only finitely many such defining formulas are required. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lars+Svenonius
 
||1930: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass.
 
||1930: Harvey Washington Wiley dies ... chemist best known for his leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and his subsequent work at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration.  More: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/08/654066794/how-a-19th-century-chemist-took-on-the-food-industry-with-a-grisly-experiment Pic.
 
||1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional.
 
||1937: Gerald Hurst born ... chemist and academic ... arson investigator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gerald+hurst
 
||938: Michel Raynaud born ... mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic.
 
||1944: Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray dies ... chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic.
 
||1946: Gordon Brewster dies ... cartoonist.
 
||1947: Joseph Daniel Casolaro born ... freelance writer. Pic.
 
||1948: Louis Marcel Brillouin born ... physicist and mathematician. He will publish experimental and theoretic papers on a wide range of topics including gas kinetics, viscosity, thermodynamics, electricity, melting conditions, aircraft stability, and tidal dynamics. He also built a new model of the Eötvös balance. Pic.
 
||1963: Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
 
||1970: Sydney Chapman dies ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic.
 
||1977: Wernher von Braun dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1977: Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
 
||1995: Bettye Washington Greene dies ... chemist. Greene researched colloid and latex chemistry, including interactions between latex and paper. Pic (science!).
 
||2004: Herman Heine Goldstine dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. Pic.
 
||2011: Östen Mäkitalo dies ... engineer and academic dies ... Nordic mobile. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%C3%B6sten+m%C3%A4kitalo.
 
||2012: The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
 
||2013: Hans Hass dies ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic.
 
File:Self portrait (16 June 2022) 20220616_193948.jpg|link=Self portrait (16 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Self portrait (16 June 2022)|Self portrait]]'''.
 
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  • 1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.

    1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.

  • 1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.

    1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.

  • 1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

    1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

  • 1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

    1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

  • 2022: Self portrait.

    2022: Self portrait.

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