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First American spacewalker. During the 1965 Gemini IV mission, Ed White became the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk.

• 1 June 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
• 1 June 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
• 1 June 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott expedition leaves England for South Pole.
• 1 June 1978 – First Patent Cooperation Treaty international filings.
• 1 June 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
• 1 June 1990 – Bush and Gorbachev sign chemical weapons ban.
• 1 June 2000 – Patent Law Treaty is signed.
• 2 June 1966 – Surveyor 1 lands on the Moon.
• 2 June 2003 - ESA launches Mars Express probe to Mars.
• 3 June 1965 - First American spacewalk, mission Gemini IV
• 3 June 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes.
• 4 June 781 BC – First historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
• 4 June 1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted.
• 4 June 1996 - First flight. Ariane 5 rocket explodes after roughly 20 seconds.
• 5 June 1977 – Apple II, personal computer goes on sale.

Birthdays

• 1 June 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
• 1 June 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832)
• 1 June 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1 June 1907 – Frank Whittle, invented jet engine. (d. 1996)
• 1 June 1917 – William S. Knowles Nobel Prize laureate
• 1 June 1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist
• 2 June 1930 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
• 2 June 1949 – Heather Couper, British astronomer
• 3 June 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
• 3 June 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
• 4 June 1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
• 4 June 1877 – Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist & Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
• 4 June 1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist & Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 4 June 1967 – Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut
• 5 June 1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
• 5 June 1819 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer (d. 1892)
• 5 June 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
• 5 June 1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 5 June 1965 – Michael E. Brown, American astronomer
• 13 June 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)