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||1415 Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic.
||1415: Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic.


||1423 Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (d. 1497). Pic.
||1423: Antonio Manetti born ... mathematician and architect. Pic.


File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.
File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.


||1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic.
||1535: Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic.


||1686 Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist and academic (d. 1758). No pic.
||1686: Antoine de Jussieu born ... biologist and academic. No pic.


||Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (b. 6 July 1781) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic.
||1781: Thomas Stamford Raffles born ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic.


||1817 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905). Pic.
||1817: Albert von Kölliker born ... anatomist and physiologist. Pic.


||1818 Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879). Pic.
||1818: Adolf Anderssen born ... chess player. Pic.


||Sophie Blanchard (d. 6 July 1819), commonly referred to as Madame Blanchard, was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic.
||1819: Sophie Blanchard dies ... aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic.


||Daniel Coit Gilman (b. July 6, 1831) was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."
||1831: Daniel Coit Gilman born ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."


||Sir Alfred Bray Kempe (b. 6 July 1849) was a mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic.
||1849: Sir Alfred Bray Kempe born ... mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic.


||1854 Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789). Pic.
||1854: Georg Ohm dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.


||Friedrich Fichter (b. 6 July 1869) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry.  Pic. Death date uncertain 1952.
||1869: Friedrich Fichter ... professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry.  Pic. Death date uncertain 1952.


||1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
||1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.


||1892 Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
||1892: Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.


||Hermann Lorenz Künneth (b. July 6, 1892) was a German mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem. Pic.
||1892: Hermann Lorenz Künneth born ... mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem. Pic.


||1903 Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982). Pic.
||1903: Hugo Theorell born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician. Pic.
||1910: Lothar Collatz born ... mathematician. Pic.


File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.


||Lawrence Hargrave (29 January 1850 – 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic.
||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic.


||Lawrence Hargrave (d. 6 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic.
||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722


||1944 Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. Pic.
||1944: Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. Pic.


||1944 The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
||1944: The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.


||1962 As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
||1962: As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1989: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis Canadian]] Arts Festival.
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1989: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis Canadian]] Arts Festival.
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File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1990: Signed original edition of ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]].
File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1990: Signed original edition of ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]].


||2003 The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
||2003: The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.


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