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|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
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||Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (b. 23 December 1722) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751[1] as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.
File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.


||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792)
||1722: Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt born ... mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.


||1766 – Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist (d. 1852)
||1732: Richard Arkwright born ... businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame. Pic.
 
||1766: Wilhelm Hisinger born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1790: Jean-François Champollion born ... scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed many previous assumptions about ancient Egypt to be wrong, making it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].


||1884 – John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
||1847: Captain François Mingaud dies ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.
 
||1890: Edward Sang dies ... mathematician and civil engineer, best known for having computed large tables of logarithms, with the help of two of his daughters. Pic.
 
||1895: John Russell Hind dies ... astronomer. Early discoverer of asteroids.  Pic.
 
||1900: Otto Soglow born ... cartoonist. Pic.
 
||1907: Pierre Janssen dies ... astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium. Pic.
 
||1908: Hugo Hadwiger dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic.
 
||1912: Anna J. Harrison born ... organic chemist and academic. Pic.
 
||1913: The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System. Pic.
 
||1923: Harold Masursky born ... geologist and senior scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's astrogeology branch supporting space exploration. Starting in the mid 1960s, he helped analyze the photographs from the Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, and Surveyor lunar missions. In mapping the moon, suitable landing spots were being sought for the unmanned Surveyor 5 spacecraft (1967) and the manned Apollo landings (1969-72). Masursky headed the group that interpreted television transmissions from Martian satellite Mariner 9 (1971), producing maps to plan the landing of unmanned Viking spacecraft on Mars (1976). He analyzed data on the geological origins and evolution of the planets. He collaborated in foreign projects such as the Soviet Venus probes. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_24.htm
 
||1931: Basil Gordon born ... mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.[1] He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students. Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, generalizing the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. He also posed the still-unsolved Gaussian moat problem in 1962. Pic: https://www.math.ucla.edu/news/memoriam-basil-gordon-professor-mathematics-emeritus-1931-%E2%80%93-2012


||1900 – Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
||1932: Theoretical physicist Thomas Kibble born ... research interests were in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism, and for his research on topological defects. From the 1950s he was concerned about the nuclear arms race and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist. Pic.


||Pierre Jules César Janssen (d. 23 December 1907), also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.
File:Fujisawa Rikitaro.jpg|link=Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|1933: Mathematician [[Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|Rikitarō Fujisawa]] dies. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.


||1912 – Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998)
||1939: Anthony Fokker dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII. Pic (dashing).


||1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
||1939: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf dies ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.


|File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]].
||1939: Ludwig Hopf dies ... theoretical physicist who made contributions to mathematics, special relativity, hydrodynamics, and aerodynamics.  Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Dr-Ludwig-Hopf/6000000003495136149


||1939 – Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)
||1944: The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II. On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park, near Phoenix, Arizona, and fled into the surrounding desert. All of the escapees were eventually recaptured without bloodshed over the next few weeks, and although most were detained within Maricopa County, a few nearly made it to the border of Mexico, which is about 130 miles south of the camp. Pic.


|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1941: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||1947: The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.


||1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
||1949: Arthur Eichengrün dies ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1953: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II. Pic.


||Arthur Eichengrün (d. 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics
||1954: First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.


||1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
||1968: The 82 sailors from the USS ''Pueblo'' are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.


||1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
||1971: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. Pic search.


||1972 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
||1972: Andrei Tupolev dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104. Pic.


||Ralph Hartzler Fox (d. December 23, 1973) was an American mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory.
||1973: Ralph Hartzler Fox dies ... mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory. Pic.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.  
||1973: Gerard Peter Kuiper dies ... astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Pic.


||1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
||1985: Alfred Theodor Brauer dies ... mathematician who did work in number theory. Pic.


||Richard Rado FRS (d. 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. In graph theory, the Rado graph, a countably infinite graph containing all countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, is named after Rado. He rediscovered it in 1964 after previous works on the same graph by Wilhelm Ackermann, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi. Pic.
||1986: Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.


|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|1999: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||1989: Richard Rado dies ... mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. In graph theory, the Rado graph, a countably infinite graph containing all countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, is named after Rado. He rediscovered it in 1964 after previous works on the same graph by Wilhelm Ackermann, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi. Pic.


||Donald Clayton Spencer (d. December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations.  
||1992: Robert Marshak dies ... American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education. Pic.


|File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2012: Festival at [[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]] celebrates history of [[scrying engines]].
||2001: Donald Clayton Spencer dies ... mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Donald-Spencer/6000000000566571886


||2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
||2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov dies ... Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle. Pic.


||2014 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
||2014: Robert V. Hogg dies ... statistician and academic. Pic: https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/clas-mourns-passing-professor-emeritus-robert-v-hogg-pioneering-statistician-teacher-mentor-and


||December 23 is the fictional date of the [[Zendian problem (nonfiction)|Zendian problem]], a US Army cryptography training exercise involving 375 radio messages said to have been intercepted on December 23 by the US Army contingent of a United Nations force landed on the fictional island of Zendia in the Pacific Ocean.
||December 23 is the fictional date of the [[Zendian problem (nonfiction)|Zendian problem]], a US Army cryptography training exercise involving 375 radio messages said to have been intercepted on December 23 by the US Army contingent of a United Nations force landed on the fictional island of Zendia in the Pacific Ocean.


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  • 1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.

    1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.

  • 1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.

    1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.

  • 1933: Mathematician Rikitarō Fujisawa dies. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.

    1933: Mathematician Rikitarō Fujisawa dies. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.

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