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||1797: Joseph Henry born ... physicist and engineer.
||1797: Joseph Henry born ... physicist and engineer.


||John Kerr FRS (b. 17 December 1824) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect.
||1824: John Kerr born ... physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect.


||1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
||1833: Kaspar Hauser dies ... alleged feral child.


||Felice Casorati (b. 17 December 1835) was an Italian mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio. He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.  
||1835: Felice Casorati born ... mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio. He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.  


File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
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File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Arthur Edwin Kennelly (b. December 17, 1861), was an Irish[citation needed]-American electrical engineer.
||1861: Arthur Edwin Kennelly born ... electrical engineer.


||1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
||1862: American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.


||Henri Eugène Padé (b. December 17, 1863) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions. Pic.
||1863: Henri Eugène Padé born ... mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions. Pic.


||George Brayton (d. December 17, 1892) was born in Rhode Island, son of William H. and Minerva (Bailey) Brayton. He was an American mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.  
||1892: George Brayton dies ... mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.  


||1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
||1896: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.


File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].


||1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
||1903: The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.


File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1907: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] dies.  He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1907: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] dies.  He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.


||1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||1908: Willard Libby born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Martin Arthur Pomerantz (b. December 17, 1916) was an American physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy.
||1916: Martin Arthur Pomerantz born ... physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy.


||1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)
||1920: Kenneth E. Iverson born ... computer scientist, developed the APL programming language.


||Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green (b. 17 December 1920) was a British–Australian physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. Pic.
||1920: Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green born ... physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. Pic.


||Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (d. 17 December 1938) was a prominent chemist-physicist of Estonian and Baltic-German descent who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy. Pic.
||1938: Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann dies ... chemist-physicist of Estonian and Baltic-German descent who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy. Pic.


File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1938: Physicist [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1938: Physicist [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.


||1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
||1940: Alicia Boole Stott dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
||1957: The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.


||1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
||1961: Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.


File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1963: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] discovers a new form of Einstein–Rosen bridge which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1963: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] discovers a new form of Einstein–Rosen bridge which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
||1964: Victor Francis Hess dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (21 April 1904, Schoterland – 17 December 1964, Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. Pic: book cover.
||1964: Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma dies ... mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. Pic: book cover.


||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.


|File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time.
||1999: Jürgen Kurt Moser dies ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.


||Jürgen Kurt Moser (d. December 17, 1999) was an award-winning, German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
||2003: SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.


||2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
||2014: Dieter Grau dies ... scientist and engineer.


|File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|2004: [[HAL 9000]] blames "inherent perversity of [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]]" for death of crew and passengers.
||2015: Osamu Hayaishi dies ... biochemist and academic.


||2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)
File:Green-Ring-Coalescence.png|link=Green Ring Coalescence (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Ring Coalescence (nonfiction)|Green Ring Coalescence]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
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