Template:Selected anniversaries/June 7
1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1884: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for eighty thousand dollars.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1959: Brainiac Explains magazine published detailed plans for simulating the BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
1961: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Alan Turing of causing the explosion at the BOMARC missile site.
