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21 Jun 1535
Leonhard Rauwolf |
birth Leonhard Rauwolf Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (died 1596) |
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21 Jun 1626
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt |
death Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Flemish-born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550) |
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21 Jun 1705
David Hartley |
birth David Hartley David Hartley, English physician and psychologist (died 1757) |
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21 Jun 1738
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend |
death Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English agriculturalist (born 1674) |
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21 Jun 1770
Charlotta Frölich |
death Charlotta Frölich Charlotta Frölich, Swedish agronomist and historian (born 1698) |
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21 Jun 1781
Siméon Poisson |
birth Siméon Poisson Siméon Poisson, mathematician (died 1840) |
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21 Jun 1796
Mungo Park |
Mungo Park (exploration) Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the Niger River. |
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21 Jun 1834
Cyrus McCormick |
Cyrus McCormick (technology) Cyrus McCormick receives his first patent for a mechanical reaper, in the United States. |
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21 Jun 1857
Louis Jacques Thénard |
death Louis Jacques Thénard Louis Jacques Thénard (born 1777), French chemist. |
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21 Jun 1880
Arnold Gesell |
birth Arnold Gesell Arnold Gesell (died 1961), American developmental psychologist. |
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21 Jun 1893
Ferris Wheel |
Ferris Wheel (technology) The first Ferris Wheel opens to the public at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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21 Jun 1932
Marshall "Major" Taylor |
death Marshall "Major" Taylor Marshall "Major" Taylor (born 1878), African American racing cyclist. |
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21 Jun 1948
program |
program (computer science) World's first working program run on an electronic stored-program computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine ("Baby") (written by Tom Kilburn). |
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21 Jun 1948
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
death D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (born 1860), Scottish biologist. |
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21 Jun 1965
Yang Liwei |
birth Yang Liwei Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut. |
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21 Jun 1972
Warren Lyford DeLano |
birth Warren Lyford DeLano Warren Lyford DeLano, American bioinformatician and open source advocate (d. 2009). |
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21 Jun 1993
Andrew Wiles |
Andrew Wiles (mathematics) Andrew Wiles announces a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem at the Isaac Newton Institute. The proof is slightly flawed, but Wiles announces a revised proof the following year. |
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21 Jun 2001
Total solar eclipse |
Total solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Total solar eclipse |
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21 Jun 2004
SpaceShipOne |
SpaceShipOne (space exploration) SpaceShipOne, the first civilian space ship is launched in California, reaching an altitude of 100 km (62 mi), just passing the edge of space. |
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