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File:Nezahualcoyotl.jpg|link=Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler [[Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|Nezahualcoyotl]] dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
File:Nezahualcoyotl.jpg|link=Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler [[Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|Nezahualcoyotl]] dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.


||George Heriot (b. 4 June 1563) was a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist.
||1544: Olaus Magnus appointed Archbishop ... archbishop, historian, and cartographer. DOB unknown. No pics, none (but see cool associated pics, e.g. Dwarves fighting Cranes).
 
||1563: George Heriot born ... goldsmith and philanthropist. Pic.


||1694 – François Quesnay, French economist and physician (d. 1774)
||1694: François Quesnay born ... economist and physician. Pic.


||1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (d. 1776)
||1704: Benjamin Huntsman born ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search.


||Johann Beckmann (b. June 4, 1739) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. Pic.
File:Johann Beckmann.png|link=Johann Beckmann (nonfiction)|1739: Scientist and author [[Johann Beckmann (nonfiction)|Johann Beckmann]] born. Beckmann will coin the word ''technology'', meaning the science of trades, and be the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.  


||1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (d. 1780)
||1744: Patrick Ferguson born ... soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle. No DOB. Pic.


||1754 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Slovak astronomer and academic (d. 1832)
||1754: Franz Xaver von Zach born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians  fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]] for hundreds of years after.
File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1769: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]]'s hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.


File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1783: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]] give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1783: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]] give first public demonstration of balloon flight.


||1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
||1784: Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated). No DOB, no DOD. Pic search dubious.
 
||1787: Constant Prévost born ... geologist and academic. Pic.


||1787 – Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (d. 1856)
||1798: Giacomo Casanova dies ... adventurer and author. Pic.


||1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and author (b. 1725)
||1834: Jacob Volhard born ... chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation. Pic.


||1877 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
||1877: Heinrich Otto Wieland born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS ''Supply'' to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
||1855: Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS ''Supply'' to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps. Pic.


||Beno Gutenberg (b. June 4, 1889) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.
||1889: Beno Gutenberg born ... seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude. Pic.


||1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
||1891: Leopold Vietoris born ... soldier, mathematician, and academic born. Pic.


||1910 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (d. 1999)
||1896: Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.


||1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
||1910: Christopher Cockerell born ... engineer, invented the hovercraft. Pic.


||1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''.
||1916: Robert F. Furchgott born ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
||1917: The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''.


File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1943: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card computation to forecast the position of [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]] a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
||1922: W. H. R. Rivers dies ... anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist ... best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock. Pic.
 
||1926: Victor Prather born ... flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit. On May 4, 1961, Prather drowned during the helicopter transfer after the landing of the Strato-Lab V balloon flight, which set an altitude record for manned balloon flight which stood until 2012. Pic search.
 
||1936: Yvette Amice born ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm.


File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.


||Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (d. 4 June 1946) was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him.  Pic.
||1946: Ernst Leonard Lindelöf dies ... mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him.  Pic.
 
||1961: William Thomas Astbury FRS dies ... physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure. Pic search.
 
||1966: Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky born ... mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002.  Pic.


||William Thomas Astbury FRS (d. 4 June 1961, Leeds) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure.
||1970: Donald Matheson Sutherland dies ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic.


||1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
||1973: Maurice René Fréchet dies ... mathematician and academic. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. His dissertation opened the entire field of functionals on metric spaces and introduced the notion of compactness. Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions. Pic.


||1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
||1986: Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. Pic.


||1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
||1989: Dik Browne dies ... cartoonist ... Hagar the Horrible. Pic.


File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1992: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1992: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.


||1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
||1996: The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.


||1997 – Vladimir Hütt, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1936)
||1997: Vladimir Hütt dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search.


||2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
||2010: Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.


||2015 – Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
||2015: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic.


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  • 1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.

    1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.

  • 1739: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann born. Beckmann will coin the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and be the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.

    1739: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann born. Beckmann will coin the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and be the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.

  • 1769: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.

    1769: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.

  • 1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.

    1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.

  • 1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

    1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

  • 1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

    1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

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