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| ||1083: Anna Komnene born ... Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. She is best known for her attempt to usurp her brother, John II Komnenos, and for her work The Alexiad, an account of her father's reign. DOD unknown. Pic.
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| ||1455: Lorenzo Ghiberti dies ... goldsmith and sculptor. No DOB. Pic: portrait sculpture.
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| ||1525: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer. Pic.
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| ||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian. Pic.
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| ||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. Pic: book cover.
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| ||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician. ... discovery ... the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. Maraldi is also credited for the first observation (1723) of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation that was unrecognized until its rediscovery in the early 19th century by Dominique Arago. At the time of Arago's discovery, Poisson's spot gave convincing evidence for the contested wave nature of light. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Giacomo+F.+Maraldi
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| ||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.
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| File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers. | | File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers. |
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| ||1768: The former slave ship ''Fredensborg'' sinks off Tromøy in Norway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredensborg_(slave_ship) Pic.
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| ||1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic.
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| ||1805: Hugh Hamilton dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher (scientist) and professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a Church of Ireland bishop, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and then Bishop of Ossory. Pic.
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| ||1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
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| ||1845: Eduard Riecke born ... experimental physicist. Pic.
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| ||1862: In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
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| ||1866: George Everest dies ... surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. He is best known for having Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, named in his honor. Pic.
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| File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | | File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
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| ||1913: Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
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| ||1925: Martin Rodbell born ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1928: Lee Albert Rubel born ... mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Pic search.
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| ||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... engineer and optician ... He invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research. Pic.
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| ||1940: Jerry Lawson born ... electronic engineer and inventor ... known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as pioneering the commercial video game cartridge. Pic.
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| File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
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| File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. |
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| File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.
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| File:Somerton_Man.jpg|link=Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|1948: [[Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|Tamam Shud case]]: an unidentified man is found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man. | | File:Somerton_Man.jpg|link=Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|1948: [[Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|Tamam Shud case]]: an unidentified man is found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man. |
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| ||1948: Philippe Flajolet born ... computer scientist. He will contribute to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. Pic.
| | File:Stellated Octahedron Day.jpg|link=Stellated Octahedron Day|1967: First known occurence of '''''[[Stellated Octahedron Day]]''''' (December 1) celebrating the stellated octahedron, the only stellation of the octahedron. |
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| ||1952: The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
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| ||1959: Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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| ||1960: Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
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| ||1964: Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
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| ||1892: J. B. S. Haldane dies ... geneticist and biologist ... contributed to physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. He made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. His article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", and it became the foundation to build physical models for the chemical origin of life. Pic.
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| File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist, astronomer, and [[APTO]] field cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] publishes his landmark study on advances in [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory with applications in the detection and prevention of [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against nuclear constants]]. | |
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| File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II. | | File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II. |
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| ||1970: Ruth Law Oliver dies ... pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. Pic (cool aviation).
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| ||1977: Kenneth O. May dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm
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| ||1990: Chemist and academic Rudolf Signer dies ... contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Pic search.
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| ||1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
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| File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|link=Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Retrotemporal analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] accidentally causes an [[Evil bit release]] event.
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| File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2004: [[Evil bit release|Evil bit released a year ago]] celebrates its first year of freedom.
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| ||2005: Gust Avrakotos dies ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic.
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| ||2009: Alexander Brudno dies ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Pic.
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| ||2013: Stirling Colgate dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search.
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| ||2015: Joseph Engelberger dies ... physicist and engineer ... physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. He has been called "the father of robotics" for his contributions to the field. Pic.
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| ||2048: Shoucheng Zhang dies ... physicist and academic ... condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity. Pic.
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| ||||2020: Chang'e 5 lunar landing (Chinese: 嫦娥五号; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào[note 1]) is a robotic mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. Like its predecessors, the spacecraft was named after the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e. It was launched on 23 November 2020 at 20:30 UTC from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island and landed on the Moon on 1 December 2020, followed by returning to Earth with lunar samples on 16 December 2020, at 17:59 UTC.
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