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08 Jun 1625
Giovanni Cassini |
birth Giovanni Cassini Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer (died 1712) |
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08 Jun 1628
Rudolph Goclenius |
death Rudolph Goclenius Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and polymath (born 1547) |
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08 Jun 1638
Pierre Magnol |
birth Pierre Magnol Pierre Magnol, French botanist (died 1715) |
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08 Jun 1724
John Smeaton |
birth John Smeaton John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792) |
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08 Jun 1736
Leonhard Euler |
Leonhard Euler (mathematics) Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus. |
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08 Jun 1783
volcano |
volcano (earth sciences) The volcano Laki in Iceland begins a major eruption with extensive climatic consequences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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08 Jun 1859
Walter Hunt |
death Walter Hunt Walter Hunt (born 1796), American inventor. |
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08 Jun 1887
Herman Hollerith |
Herman Hollerith (technology) Herman Hollerith receives a U.S. patent for his punched card calculator. |
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08 Jun 1916
Francis Crick |
birth Francis Crick Francis Crick (died 2004), English-born molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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08 Jun 1918
Nova |
Nova (astronomy) Nova Aquila, the brightest observed since 1604, is discovered. |
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08 Jun 1937
solar eclipse |
solar eclipse (astronomy) First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru. |
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08 Jun 1955
Tim Berners-Lee |
birth Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee, English-born creator of the world wide web. |
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08 Jun 1995
Danish |
Danish (computer science) Danish/Greenlandic/Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf releases the first version of the scripting language PHP, which in 15 years will be used as the server-side language on 75% of all Web servers. |
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08 Jun 2004
Transit of Venus |
Transit of Venus (astronomy) Transit of Venus across the Sun. |
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