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04 Jun 1584
Walter Ralegh |
Walter Ralegh (exploration) Walter Ralegh sends Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island. |
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04 Jun 1704
Benjamin Huntsman |
birth Benjamin Huntsman Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (died 1776) |
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04 Jun 1754
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach |
birth Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German astronomer (died 1832) |
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04 Jun 1756
Jean-Antoine Chaptal |
birth Jean-Antoine Chaptal Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French chemist who names nitrogen in 1790 (died 1832) |
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04 Jun 1765
Takeshi Watanabe |
birth Takeshi Watanabe Takeshi Watanabe, Japanese swordmaker (died 1838) |
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04 Jun 1784
Elizabeth Thible |
Elizabeth Thible (technology) Elizabeth Thible becomes the first woman passenger in a hot air balloon, at Lyon, France. |
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04 Jun 1787
Constant Prévost |
birth Constant Prévost Constant Prévost (died 1856), French geologist. |
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04 Jun 1838
John Grigg |
birth John Grigg John Grigg (died 1920), astronomer. |
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04 Jun 1866
Pluto |
Pluto (astronomy) Pluto (not known at this time) reaches its only aphelion between 1618 and 2113. |
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04 Jun 1889
Beno Gutenberg |
birth Beno Gutenberg Beno Gutenberg (died 1960), German-born seismologist. |
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04 Jun 1914
Alec Skempton |
birth Alec Skempton Alec Skempton (died 2001), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian. |
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04 Jun 1916
Robert F. Furchgott |
birth Robert F. Furchgott Robert F. Furchgott (died 2009), American biochemist, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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04 Jun 1938
Sigmund Freud |
Sigmund Freud (medicine) Sigmund Freud and his immediate family leave Vienna for exile in London. |
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04 Jun 1961
William Astbury |
death William Astbury William Astbury (born 1898), English physicist and molecular biologist. |
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04 Jun 2002
Quaoar |
Quaoar (astronomy and space ) Quaoar is discovered. |
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