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||1269: King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten ''livres'' of silver. Pic.
||1504: Bernhard Walther dies ... astronomer and humanist. No DOB. Pic: residence/observatory.
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.


File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1624: Physician, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and banishes [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]].
||1650: Matthäus Merian dies ... engraver and cartographer. Pic.
 
||1693: Mathematician Christian August Hausen born. He is known for his research on electricity. Pic.
 
File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1771: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
 
||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist, best known for his discovery of morphine in 1804. Pic.
 
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist '''[[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]]''' born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. 
 
||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring).
 
||1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic. Pic.
 
||1851: Silvanus P. Thompson born ... physicist, engineer, and academic. His most enduring publication will be his 1910 text ''Calculus Made Easy'', which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is in the public domain (and still in print). Pic.
 
||1854: Hjalmar Mellin born ... mathematician and theorist. He will be known for the Mellin transform. Pic.
 
||1861: Émile Haug born ... geologist and paleontologist ... known for his contribution to the geosyncline theory. Pic.
 
||1862: The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
 
||1865: Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
 
||1869: Ernst Waldemar Jungner born ... inventor and engineer. In 1899 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd) and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate, and patented a rock drilling device. Pic.
 
||1874: Peder Oluf Pedersen born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peder+Oluf+Pedersen
 
||1876: Nigel Gresley born ... engineer.
 
||1894: Lloyd Hall born ... chemist and inventor.
 
||1897: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1899: Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel dies ... physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.
 
||1901: Raj Chandra Bose dies ... mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs.  Pic.
 
||1902: Wallace John Eckert dies ... astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.
 
||1906: Ernst Boris Chain born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1907: Børge Christian Jessen born ... mathematician best known for his work in analysis, specifically on the Riemann zeta function, and in geometry, specifically on Hilbert's third problem. Pic.
 
||1909: Midori Naka born ... stage actress of the Shingeki style, famous in her country at the time of her death. She survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, only to die 18 days later. She was the first person in the world whose death was officially certified to be a result of radiation poisoning. Her notability helped publicize the adverse effects of exposure to radiation and encouraged more research on this area. Pic.
 
||1910: Paul Flory born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1922: Aage Bohr born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1926: Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli born. Pic.
 
||1934: The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
 
||1945: Stefan Mazurkiewicz dies ... mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He will be known for the Hahn–Mazurkiewicz theorem, a basic result on curves prompted by the phenomenon of space-filling curves. Pic.
 
||1945: Timothy "Tim" Poston born ... mathematician best known for his work on catastrophe theory. Pic.
 
||1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. Pic.
 
||1956: Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19 June 1956.  Pic.
 
||1962: A formation of four F-104F aircraft, practicing for the type's introduction-into-service ceremony, crashed together after descending through a cloud bank. Three Germans and one American pilot were killed, and the four aircraft destroyed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter Pic.
 
||1965: James Collip dies ... biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin. Pic.
 
||1975: Sam Giancana dies ... mob boss. Pic.
 
||1988: Fernand Seguin dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fernand+Seguin
 
||2004: 99942 Apophis discovered ... a 370 meter diameter near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029.
 
File:Apples (19 June 2022) 20230619_191734.jpg|link=Apples (19 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Apples (19 June 2022)|Apples]]'''.


File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. 
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1858: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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  • 1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.

    1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.

  • 1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.

    1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.

  • 1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.

    1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.

  • 2022: Apples.

    2022: Apples.

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