Template:Selected anniversaries/December 27
1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
1773: Engineer George Cayley born. He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Engineer Gustave Eiffel dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1924: Jean Bartik born. She will be one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1942: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to visualize the Wow! signal.