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| File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism. | | File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism. |
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| File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and counteract [[geometry solvent]].
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| File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
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| ||1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
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| ||1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
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| ||1863 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
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| ||Abraham Cressy Morrison (b. December 6, 1864) was an American chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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| ||1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
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| ||1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
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| ||1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
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| ||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
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| ||Johann Rudolf Wolf (d. 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
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| ||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
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| ||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (b. December 6, 1900) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
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| ||1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
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| ||1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
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| ||1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
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| ||1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
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| ||John L. Kelley (b. December 6, 1916) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
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| ||1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
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| ||Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (b. December 6, 1919) was an American physicist, the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.
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| ||1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
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| ||1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
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| ||1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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| ||1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
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| ||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
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| ||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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| ||1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
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| File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
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| ||George Elbert Kimball (d. December 6, 1967) was an American professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II.
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| ||Joseph L. Walsh (d. December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.
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| ||1980 – Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
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| File:George_Brecht.jpg|link=George Brecht (nonfiction)|2005: Chemist, composer, and crime-fighter [[George Brecht (nonfiction)|George Brecht]] uses conceptual art to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
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| File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
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| ||File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
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| File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
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