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File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|903: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] born. He will publish his ''Book of Fixed Stars'' in 964.
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|903: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] born. He will publish his ''Book of Fixed Stars'' in 964.


||1735: Gregorio Fontana born ... mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates.
||1735: Gregorio Fontana born ... mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates. Pic.
 
||1805: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin born ... magician, the "Father of Modern Conjuring". Pic.


File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1823: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1823: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.


||1830: Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona born ... mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. His reputation mainly rests on his Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane. He notably enriched our knowledge of algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces.
||1830: Luigi Cremona born ... mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. His reputation mainly rests on his Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane. He notably enriched our knowledge of algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces. Pic.


||1847: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival.
||1847: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. Pic.


||1869: Outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
||1869: Outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.


||1903: Danilo Blanuša born ... mathematician, physicist, and academic.
||1903: Danilo Blanuša born ... mathematician, physicist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=danilo+blanuša&oq=Danilo+Blanuša


||1904: Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
||1904: Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.


||1905: Gerard Kuiper born ... astronomer and academic.
||1905: Gerard Kuiper born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1911: Nicholas Kemmer born ... nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear program. Pic.
||1911: Nicholas Kemmer born ... nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear program. Pic.
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||1912: George Howard Darwin dies ... barrister and astronomer. He studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and formulated the fission theory of Moon formation.
||1912: George Howard Darwin dies ... barrister and astronomer. He studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and formulated the fission theory of Moon formation.


||1915: Guido Zappa born ... mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics.
||1915: Guido Zappa born ... mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics. Pic.


||1924: Mary Ellen Rudin born ... mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology. Pic.
||1924: Mary Ellen Rudin born ... mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology. Pic.


File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] uses fermions (now known as [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetals]]) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1933: Mathematician and Jesuit priest James Cullen born. He contributed to what are now called Cullen numbers. No pics online.


||1930: W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
||1941: World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)


||1941: World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
||1943: Henry Louis Rietz dies ... mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory. Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/henry-lewis-rietz-1924-maa-president


||1943: Henry Louis Rietz dies ... mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.  
||1952: Forest Ray Moulton dies ... astronomer and academic. In the first decades of the twentieth century, some additional small satellites were discovered to be in orbit around Jupiter. Dr. Moulton proposed that these were actually gravitationally-captured planetesimals. This theory has become well-accepted among astronomers. Pic.


||1960: Walter Noddack dies ... chemist who discovered the element rhenium (Jun 1925) in collaboration with his wife Ida Tacke. In 1922, he began a long search for undiscovered elements. After three years, the careful fractionation of certain ores yielded element 75, a rare heavy metallic element that resembles manganese. Named rhenium after the Rhine River, it was the last stable element to be discovered. Noddack is also remembered for arguing for a concept he called allgegenwartskonzentration or, literally, omnipresent concentration. This idea, reminiscent of Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, assumed that every mineral actually contained every element. The reason they could not all be detected was they existed in too small quantities. Pic: https://sciencenotes.org/today-in-science-history-december-7-walter-noddack/
||1960: Walter Noddack dies ... chemist who discovered the element rhenium (Jun 1925) in collaboration with his wife Ida Tacke. In 1922, he began a long search for undiscovered elements. After three years, the careful fractionation of certain ores yielded element 75, a rare heavy metallic element that resembles manganese. Named rhenium after the Rhine River, it was the last stable element to be discovered. Noddack is also remembered for arguing for a concept he called allgegenwartskonzentration or, literally, omnipresent concentration. This idea, reminiscent of Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, assumed that every mineral actually contained every element. The reason they could not all be detected was they existed in too small quantities. Pic: https://sciencenotes.org/today-in-science-history-december-7-walter-noddack/
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||1965: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
||1965: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.


||1970: Rube Goldberg dies ... American cartoonist, sculptor, and author.
||1970: Rube Goldberg dies ... American cartoonist, sculptor, and author. Pic.


||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
||1977: Peter Carl Goldmark dies ... engineer ... instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm phonograph disc. Pic.


File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.


||1982: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky dies ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.
||1982: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky dies ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.
||1993: Wolfgang Paul dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap. Pic.


||1995: The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
||1995: The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.


||1998: Martin Rodbell dies ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
||1998: Martin Rodbell dies ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||2009: Ray Solomonoff dies ... inventor of algorithmic probability, his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability. Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267090779_Ray_Solomonoff_and_the_New_Probability
 
||2010: John E. Baldwin dies ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.


||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]" by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]].


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  • 903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

    903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

  • 1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.

    1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.

  • 1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

    1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

  • 1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.

    1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.

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