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||1717 Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)
||1717: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier born ... botanist and physicist.


||Alexis Bouvard (b. 27 June 1767) was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic.
||1767: Alexis Bouvard born ... astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic.


||Augustus De Morgan (b. 27 June 1806) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
||1806: Augustus De Morgan born ... mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.


||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
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File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


||1952 Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
||1952: Max Dehn dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1954 The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
||1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: Publication of new family of [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]] which use [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to warn users about imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1973: Nixon Enemies List: The list became public knowledge on June 27, 1973, when Dean mentioned during hearings with the Senate Watergate Committee that a list existed containing those whom the president did not like.  


File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.


||Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (d. 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.
||1980: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger dies ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.


||1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
||1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.


||1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]].  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]].  


||2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
||2013: NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.


||2018: Hayabusa2 arrival at target asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
||2018: Hayabusa2 arrival at target asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2


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