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File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.


||Karl Gottfried Hagen (b. 24 December 1749) was a German chemist.
||1749: Karl Gottfried Hagen born ... chemist.


File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1761: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1761: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.


||André-Michel Guerry (b. December 24, 1802) was a French lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science.
||1802: André-Michel Guerry born ... lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science.


File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1818: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work.
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1818: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work.
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.


||Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (26 September 1910) was a Danish astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.
||1838: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele born ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.


||1868 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1941)
||1868: Emanuel Lasker born ... chess player, mathematician, and philosopher.


||1868 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
||1868: Adolphe d'Archiac dies ... paleontologist and geologist.


||1872 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
||1872: William John Macquorn Rankine dies ... physicist and engineer.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1877: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison)]] files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1877: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison)]] files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder.
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File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.
File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.


||Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (d. 24 December 1884) was a German physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic.
||1884: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly dies ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic.


File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
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||1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
||1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.


||1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
||1980: Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".


||Pierre Victor Auger (d. 24 December 1993) was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics.
||1993: Pierre Victor Auger dies ... physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics.


||Raemer Edgar Schreiber (d. December 24, 1998) was an American physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets.  Pic.
||1994: Mathematician and adademic Alfred Leon Foster dies. He studied the role of duality in Boolean theory and subsequently developed a theory of n-ality for certain rings which played for n-valued logics the role of Boolean rings vis-a-vis Boolean algebras.  Pic.


||Laurence Chisholm Young (d. 24 December 2000) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic.
||1998: Raemer Edgar Schreiber dies ... physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets.  Pic.
 
||2000: Laurence Chisholm Young dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic.


|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|2016: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] is hottest Christmas gift of the year.
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  • 1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

    1473: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius dies. He helped develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

  • 1761: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

    1761: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons born. He will become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons will discover thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1818: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work.

    1818: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule born. He will study the nature of heat, and discover its relationship to mechanical work.

  • 1822: Mathematician Charles Hermite born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

    1822: Mathematician Charles Hermite born. He will do research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

  • 1877: Thomas Edison) files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder.

    1877: Thomas Edison) files for a patent on the phonograph. The idea came to him while working on a telegraph transmitter, when he noticed that when the tape of the machine was played at high speed, it gave off a noise resembling spoken words. After experimenting with a needle attached to the diaphragm of a telephone receiver to prick paper tape to record a message, his idea evolved to using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder.

  • 1881: Physician, physiologist, and crime-fighter Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1881: Physician, physiologist, and crime-fighter Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1882: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.

    1882: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing dies. He introduced the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.

  • 1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

    1905: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes born. He will be known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

  • 1906: Inventor Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

    1906: Inventor Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

  • 1917: Politician Ivan Goremykin dies. He is remembered for his Extreme Moustaches.

    1917: Politician Ivan Goremykin dies. He is remembered for his Extreme Moustaches.

  • 1962: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann dies. He discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

    1962: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann dies. He discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation.

  • 1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin invents hand-held scrying engine, sends Christmas Eve greetings to Hamangia figurines.

    1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin invents hand-held scrying engine, sends Christmas Eve greetings to Hamangia figurines.

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