Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 23

June 23

• 1612 - Birth of André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
• 1750 - Birth of Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
• 1806 - Death of Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
• 1832 - Death of Sir James Hall, Bt, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
• 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
• 1881 - Death of Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (b. 1804)
• 1891 - Death of Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
• 1894 - Birth of Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
• 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• 1988 - James E. Hansen testifies before the U.S. Senate that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.
• 1995 - Death of Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Death of Harriet, a 175 year old Galápagos tortoise reportedly collected by Charles Darwin (b. 1830)