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01 Jun 1500
Johannes Werner |
Johannes Werner (astronomy) Johannes Werner tracks the movement of a comet. |
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01 Jun 1531
János Zsámboky |
birth János Zsámboky János Zsámboky, Hungarian physician and scholar (died 1584) |
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01 Jun 1563
bubonic plague |
bubonic plague (medicine and physiol) October – Outbreak of bubonic plague in London kills over 20,000. |
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01 Jun 1648
Semyon Dezhnyov |
Semyon Dezhnyov (exploration) September – Semyon Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait. |
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01 Jun 1742
Christian Goldbach |
Christian Goldbach (mathematics) Christian Goldbach produces Goldbach's conjecture. |
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01 Jun 1776
Giuseppe Zamboni |
birth Giuseppe Zamboni Giuseppe Zamboni, Italian Catholic priest and physicist (died 1846) |
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01 Jun 1787
William Symington |
William Symington (technology) William Symington patents improvements to the Watt steam engine. |
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01 Jun 1796
Nicolas Carnot |
birth Nicolas Carnot Nicolas Carnot, French physicist (died 1832) |
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01 Jun 1802
pediatric hospital |
pediatric hospital (medicine) The first pediatric hospital, the Hôpital des Enfants Malades, opens in Paris, on the site of a previous orphanage. |
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01 Jun 1810
Nicolas Appert |
Nicolas Appert (technology) Nicolas Appert publishes L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales ou végétales, the first description of modern food preservation using airtight containers. |
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01 Jun 1825
William Higgins |
death William Higgins William Higgins (born 1763), Irish chemist. |
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01 Jun 1826
Nicéphore Niépce |
Nicéphore Niépce (technology) Nicéphore Niépce produces the first photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras. |
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01 Jun 1831
Royal Navy |
Royal Navy (exploration) British Royal Navy officer James Clark Ross locates the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula. |
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01 Jun 1834
William Chester Minor |
birth William Chester Minor William Chester Minor (died 1920), surgeon and lexicographer. |
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01 Jun 1842
James Nasmyth |
James Nasmyth (technology) James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer and introduces an improved planing machine. |
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01 Jun 1844
Henry Fox Talbot |
Henry Fox Talbot (technology) Henry Fox Talbot commences publication of the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera, The Pencil of Nature. |
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01 Jun 1846
Urbain Le Verrier |
Urbain Le Verrier (astronomy) Urbain Le Verrier predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus. |
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01 Jun 1881
submarine |
submarine (technology) The positive-buoyancy powered submarine "Fenian Ram" (Holland Boat No. II), designed by John Philip Holland, is first submersion-tested in New York City. |
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01 Jun 1887
William Armstrong |
William Armstrong (awards) William Armstrong created 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside, the first engineer to be raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom |
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01 Jun 1890
United States Census Bureau |
United States Census Bureau (computer science) The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to record census returns using punched card input, a landmark in the history of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM. |
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01 Jun 1896
Shintaro Uda |
birth Shintaro Uda Shintaro Uda (died 1976), Japanese electrical engineer. |
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01 Jun 1905
Alfred Binet |
Alfred Binet (psychology) Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon publish the first Binet-Simon Intelligence Test for intelligence testing of children with mental retardation. |
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01 Jun 1907
Frank Whittle |
birth Frank Whittle Frank Whittle (died 1996), English aeronautical engineer. |
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01 Jun 1918
Spanish 'flu |
Spanish 'flu (physiology and medic) August – "Spanish 'flu" becomes pandemic. |
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01 Jun 1919
chemical bonding models |
chemical bonding models (chemistry) The term covalence in relation to chemical bonding models is first used by Irving Langmuir. |
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01 Jun 1923
Hermann Oberth |
Hermann Oberth (astronomy and space ) Hermann Oberth publishes Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ("By Rocket into Planetary Space"). |
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01 Jun 1927
Ye Shuhua |
birth Ye Shuhua Ye Shuhua, Chinese astronomer. |
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01 Jun 1933
RCA |
RCA (technology) A research group at RCA headed by Vladimir K. Zworykin publicly launches the iconoscope, the first practical cathode ray tube television camera. |
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01 Jun 1941
British |
British (physics) British scientist G. I. Taylor predicts the blast effects from an atomic bomb. |
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01 Jun 1944
Colin Blakemore |
birth Colin Blakemore Colin Blakemore, English neuroscientist. |
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01 Jun 1947
Doomsday Clock |
Doomsday Clock (physics) The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is introduced. |
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01 Jun 1951
synthetic aperture radar |
synthetic aperture radar (technology) Carl A. Wiley invents synthetic aperture radar. |
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01 Jun 1955
Fred Hoyle |
Fred Hoyle (astronomy) Fred Hoyle and Martin Schwarzschild describe the mechanism for the creation of red giant stars. |
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01 Jun 1962
Rachel Carson |
Rachel Carson (ecology) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring begins serialization in The New Yorker. |
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01 Jun 1963
kidney transplantation |
kidney transplantation (medicine) Guy Alexandre performs the first kidney transplantation from a heart-beating, brain-dead donor, at Saint Pierre Hospital, Leuven, Belgium. |
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01 Jun 1983
monoclonal antibody |
monoclonal antibody (biology) First report of using a monoclonal antibody as a medical test. |
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01 Jun 1992
anthropologist |
anthropologist (anthropology) British anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposes Dunbar's number (approximately 150) as a cognitive limit to the number of people with whom an interpersonal relationship can be maintained in human communities. |
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01 Jun 1999
RFC 2616 |
RFC 2616 (computer science) RFC 2616 defines HTTP/1.1, the version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol in common use. |
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