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||1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) | ||1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) | ||
||Reinhold Rudenberg (or Rüdenberg; d. December 25, 1961) was a German-American electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. | |||
||1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||
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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.
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.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
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.