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05 Jun 1604
Thomas Muffet |
death Thomas Muffet Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (born 1553) |
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05 Jun 1656
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort |
birth Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (died 1708) |
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05 Jun 1667
Grégoire de Saint-Vincent |
death Grégoire de Saint-Vincent Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish mathematician (born 1584) |
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05 Jun 1760
Johan Gadolin |
birth Johan Gadolin Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist and mineralogist (died 1852) |
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05 Jun 1783
Montgolfier brothers |
Montgolfier brothers (aviation) The Montgolfier brothers send up at Annonay, near Lyon, a 900 m linen hot air balloon as a public demonstration. Its flight covers 2 km and lasts 10 minutes, to an estimated altitude of 1600–2000 metres. |
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05 Jun 1804
Robert Schomburgk |
birth Robert Schomburgk Robert Schomburgk, explorer (died 1865) |
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05 Jun 1819
John Couch Adams |
birth John Couch Adams John Couch Adams (died 1892), mathematician and astronomer. |
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05 Jun 1833
Ada Lovelace |
Ada Lovelace (computer science) Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville. |
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05 Jun 1911
Charles F. Kettering |
Charles F. Kettering (technology) Charles F. Kettering files a United States patent for an electric starter motor. |
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05 Jun 1937
Alan Blumlein |
Alan Blumlein (technology) Alan Blumlein is granted a patent for an ultra-linear amplifier. |
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05 Jun 1940
Dickson Despommier |
birth Dickson Despommier Dickson Despommier microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. |
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05 Jun 1944
Group Captain |
Group Captain (meteorology) Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel which permits the following day's Normandy landings to take place. |
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05 Jun 1955
Penumbral lunar eclipse |
Penumbral lunar eclipse (astronomy) Penumbral lunar eclipse. |
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05 Jun 1977
Apple II |
Apple II (computer science) The first Apple II home computers (largely designed by Steve Wozniak) go on sale in the U.S., among the first successful mass-produced microcomputers. |
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05 Jun 1991
Phil Zimmermann |
Phil Zimmermann (computer science) Phil Zimmermann posts the first Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) data encryption program. |
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05 Jun 1991
Min Chueh Chang |
death Min Chueh Chang Min Chueh Chang (b. 1908), Chinese American embryologist. |
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05 Jun 1998
neutrinos |
neutrinos (physics) Experimental proof is obtained that neutrinos have mass. |
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05 Jun 2007
NASA |
NASA (, discoveries ) NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury, which it reaches in 2011. |
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