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File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
||1801: Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes born ... engineer and academic ... He has been recognised as a model of what is now called a consultant engineer. Pic.


||1827: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot born ... artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is noted for the import and release of the gypsy moth into North America. Pic. Drawings: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=25040 http://www.graphicine.com/etienne-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings/
||1827: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot born ... artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is noted for the import and release of the gypsy moth into North America. Pic. Drawings: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=25040 http://www.graphicine.com/etienne-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings/
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File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]].
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]].
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1899: Engineer and crime-fighter [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic.
||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic.


||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||1944: Henri Lafont (real name Henri Chamberlin) executed by firing squad ... head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II. Pic.


||1956: Preston Tucker dies ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic.
||1956: Preston Tucker dies ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic.
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||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.
||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.


||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions.
||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic.
 
||1981: Henry Eyring dies ... chemist ... chemical reaction rates and intermediates. Pic.


||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
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||1992: John George Kemeny dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education.  Pic.
||1992: John George Kemeny dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education.  Pic.


||1997: Cahit Arf dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1997: Cahit Arf dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1997: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer dies ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president.[1] He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis."
||1997: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer dies ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis." Pic.


||1999: Vitold Belevitch dies ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Pic.
||1999: Vitold Belevitch dies ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Pic.


File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.


||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.
||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.


||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table.  
||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Pic.


||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/
||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/


File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas.
|File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas.


||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house.  Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+gabe
||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house.  Pic search.


File:Blue Foliage 2.jpg|link=Blue Foliage 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Blue Foliage 2 (nonfiction)|Blue Foliage 2]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.
||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic.


||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic.
File:Karl Jones 20191226 071303.jpg|link=Karl Jones (nonfiction)|2019: [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.


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  • 1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.

    1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.

  • 1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.

    1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.

  • 1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

    1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

  • 2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

    2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

  • 2019: Karl Jones takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.

    2019: Karl Jones takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.

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