Template:Selected anniversaries/June 6
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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.
1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
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: Pin Man says he was "constructed by Baron Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a thief."