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File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
 
||1519: Andrea Cesalpino born ... philosopher, physician, and botanist. Pic.
 
||1553: Bernardino Baldi born ... mathematician and author. Pic.
 
||1580: Godefroy Wendelin born ... astronomer and author. He is credited with recognizing that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter. Pic.
 
||1661: Martino Martini dies ... Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China. Pic.
 
||1749: The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta is discovered.
 
||1788: Benjamin Wilson born dies painter, printmaker and scientist (natural philosopher). He performed experiments investigating the electrical properties of tourmaline, gaining international recognition, including the Copley medal (1760). He also researched light and color, experimenting with luminescent materials.  Pic.
 
||1822: Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. Pic.
 
File:Glaciarium.jpg|link=Glaciarium (nonfiction)|1844: The [[Glaciarium (nonfiction)|Glaciarium]], the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London.
 
||1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1857: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
 
||1878: Robert Stirling dies ... minister and engineer ... invented the stirling engine. Pic.
 
||1882: Rudolf Walter Ladenburg born ... atomic physicist. Pic.
 
||1892: The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
 
||1906: Max August Zorn born ... mathematician and academic ... an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets and the like.  Pic.
 
||1909: Sir Isaiah Berlin born ... social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer. Pic.
 
||1918: Edwin G. Krebs born ... biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Pic.
 
||1919: Paul Trevier Bateman born ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/
 
||1928: Luigi Bianchi dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1932: The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon ( 1⁄4¢/L) sold.
 
||1933: Heinrich Rohrer born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. Pic.
 
||1933: The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
 
||1934: Charles Francis Jenkins dies ... pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. His businesses included Charles Jenkins Laboratories and Jenkins Television Corporation (the corporation being founded in 1928, the year the Laboratories were granted the first commercial television license in the United States). Over 400 patents were issued to Jenkins, many for his inventions related to motion pictures and television. Jenkins was born in Dayton, Ohio, grew up near Richmond, Indiana, where he went to school, and went to Washington, D.C. in 1890, where he worked as a stenographer. Pic.
 
||1934: New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1943: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
 
||1943: Guido Fubini dies ... mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Pic.
 
||1944: Paul Cornu dies ... engineer. He designed the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft. Pic (cool).
 
||1961: Carl Jung dies ... psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Pic.
 
||1964: Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
 
||1968: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
 
||1971: Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
 
||1905: Abraham Adrian Albert dies ... mathematician ... He is best known for his work on the Albert–Brauer–Hasse–Noether theorem on finite-dimensional division algebras over number fields and as the developer of Albert algebras, which are also known as exceptional Jordan algebras. Pic: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050714/acubed.shtml
 
||1977: Stefan Bergman dies ... mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.
 
||1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
 
||1993: Masao Kotani dies ... theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics. Pic.
 
||2002: Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
 
||2013: Jerome Karle dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||2013: Eugen Merzbacher dies ... physicist and academic ... applications of quantum mechanics to atomic and nuclear collision theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eugen+Merzbacher
 
||2016: Viktor Korchnoi dies ... chess player.
 
||2017: Walter Noll dies ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
 
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: In a press statement, [[Pin Man]] says he was "constructed by [[Colonel Zersetzung]] from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief."
 
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  • 1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

    1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

  • 1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London.

    1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London.

  • 1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

    1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

  • 1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

    1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

  • 2017: In a press statement, Pin Man says he was "constructed by Colonel Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief."

    2017: In a press statement, Pin Man says he was "constructed by Colonel Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief."

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