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||1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1684)
||1646: Elena Cornaro Piscopia born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic.


||Johann Friedrich August Göttling (b. 5 June 1753) was a notable German chemist.
||1753: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist.


File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born.
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born.


||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852)
||1760: Johan Gadolin born ... chemist, physicist, and mineralogist.


||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
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||1900: Dennis Gabor born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1900: Dennis Gabor born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1905: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg born ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046


||1907: Rudolf Ernst Peierlsborn ... physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project.  
||1907: Rudolf Ernst Peierlsborn ... physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project.  
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File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies.  
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies.  


||1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".


||Claude Jacques Berge (b. 5 June 1926) was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.
||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.


||Peter John Landin (b. 5 June 1930) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic.
||1930: Peter John Landin born ... computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic.


||1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.


||1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
||1964: DSV Alvin is commissioned.


||1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.


||Robert Wichard Pohl (d. 5 June 1976) was a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. he has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic.
||1976: Robert Wichard Pohl dies ... physicist at the University of Göttingen. he has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic.


||Helmut Grunsky (d. 5 June 1986 in Würzburg) was a German mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.
||1986: Helmut Grunsky dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.


||Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe (died 30 April 1989) was an Austrian mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Pic.
||1989: Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe dies ... mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Pic.


||1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
||1989: The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.


||1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.


File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies.  The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies.  The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".


||2012 – Mihai Pătrașcu, Romanian-American computer scientist (b. 1982)
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist.
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