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Science on the 30th of June in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Jun 1650 Niccolò Cabeo	science	death Niccolò Cabeo Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (born 1586)	0
30 Jun 1660 William Oughtred	science	death William Oughtred William Oughtred, English mathematician who invented the slide rule (born 1574)	0
30 Jun 1709 Edward Lhuyd	science	death Edward Lhuyd Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (born 1660)	0
30 Jun 1748 Dominique, comte de Cassini	science	birth Dominique, comte de Cassini Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (died 1845)	0
30 Jun 1817 Joseph Dalton Hooker	science	birth Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker (died 1911), English botanist.	0
30 Jun 1829 Henry Robinson Palmer	science	Henry Robinson Palmer (technology) Henry Robinson Palmer files a British patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.	0
30 Jun 1842 Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester	science	death Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (born 1754), agriculturalist and geneticist.	0
30 Jun 1860 Debate about evolution	science	Debate about evolution (biology) Debate about evolution at the new Oxford University Museum of Natural History.	0
30 Jun 1864 Yosemite Grant	science	Yosemite Grant (conservation) The Yosemite Grant is created in the United States.	0
30 Jun 1873 Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde	science	birth Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (died 1942), botanist	0
30 Jun 1888 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom	science	Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (biology) The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom opens its laboratory on Plymouth Hoe.	0
30 Jun 1912 Ludwig Bölkow	science	birth Ludwig Bölkow Ludwig Bölkow (died 2003), German aeronautical engineer.	0
30 Jun 1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	science	death John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (born 1842), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.	0
30 Jun 1971 Soyuz 11	science	Soyuz 11 (astronomy and space ) The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve during re-entry preparations, the only human deaths to occur outside Earth's atmosphere.	0
30 Jun 1972 International Time Bureau	science	International Time Bureau (astronomy and space ) The International Time Bureau adds the first leap second to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).	0
30 Jun 2002 W. Maxwell Cowan	science	death W. Maxwell Cowan W. Maxwell Cowan (b. 1931), neuroanatomist.	0

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