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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.
||1269: King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.


||1504 Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
||1504: Bernhard Walther dies ... astronomer and humanist.


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.
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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.  
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, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist.


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: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.   


||Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (d. 19 June 1820) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.


||1846 Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
||1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1851 Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
||1851: Silvanus P. Thompson dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic.


||1854 Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933). He will be known for the Mellin transform. Pic.
||1854: Hjalmar Mellin born ... mathematician and theorist. He will be known for the Mellin transform. Pic.


File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1858: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1858: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1861 Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
||1861: Émile Haug born ... geologist and paleontologist.


||1862 The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
||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.
||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.


File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|1865: ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Heroic War Illustration of the Year.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|1865: ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Heroic War Illustration of the Year.


||1874 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
||1874: Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)


||1876 Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
||1876: Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)


||1894 Lloyd Hall, African American chemist and inventor (d. 1971)
||1894: Lloyd Hall, African American chemist and inventor (d. 1971)


||1897 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
||1897: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)


||Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel (d. 19 June 1899, Munich) was a German physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. Pic.
||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.


||Raj Chandra Bose (b. 19 June 1901) was an Indian American 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.
||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.


||Wallace John Eckert (b. June 19, 1902) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.
||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, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1906: Ernst Boris Chain born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Børge Christian Jessen (b. 19 June 1907) was a Danish mathematician best known for his work in analysis, specifically on the Riemann zeta function, and in geometry, specifically on Hilbert's third problem. 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.


||1910 Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
||1910: Paul Flory born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1922 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
||1922: Aage Bohr born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1934 The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
||1934: The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).


||Stefan Mazurkiewicz (d. 19 June 1945) was a Polish 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: 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.


||Timothy "Tim" Poston (b. 19 June 1945) was an English mathematician best known for his work on catastrophe theory. 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.
||1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.


||1975 Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
||1975: Sam Giancana dies ... mob boss (b. 1908)


||1988 Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
||1988: Fernand Seguin dies ... biochemist and academic.


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