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Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
||1868 – Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (b. 1821)
||1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
||1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1932: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.  
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1932: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.  
||1946 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
||1953 – William Haselden, British cartoonist (b. 1872)
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from [[Vandal Savage Press]].
 
||1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
 
||1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
 
|File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from [[Vandal Savage Press]].
 
||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
 
||1975 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
 
||1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
 
||1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (b. 1899)
 
||2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
 
||2004 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940)
 
||2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
 
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas.
 
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas.
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Revision as of 14:36, 22 October 2017

  • 1125: Canterbury scrying engine computes new program in celebration of Christmas.

    1125: Canterbury scrying engine computes new program in celebration of Christmas.

  • 1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

    1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

  • 2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

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