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||Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1125: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.


File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1642: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
||1652: Archibald Pitcairne born ... physician and academic ... ribald. Pic.
 
||1724: John Michell born ... natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights in a wide range of scientific fields, including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. Considered "one of the greatest unsung scientists of all time", he was the first person known to propose the existence of black holes in publication, the first to suggest that earthquakes travel in waves, the first to explain how to manufacture artificial magnets, and the first to apply statistics to the study of the cosmos, recognizing that double stars were a product of mutual gravitation. He also invented an apparatus to measure the mass of the Earth. Pic: https://www.ecured.cu/John_Michell Pic search.
 
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
 
||1758: Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. Pic.
 
File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1763: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
 
||1777: Francesco Maria Zanotti dies ... philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. Pic search.
 
||1831: The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
 
||1866: Max Wien born ... physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. Pic search.


File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
||1868: Linus Yale, Jr. dies ... engineer and businessman. Pic.


||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
||1876: Adolf Windaus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1763: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich


||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.
||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone.


||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
||1900: Antoni Zygmund born ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. Pic.


||Max Karl Werner Wien (b. 25 December 1866) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena.
||1904: Gerhard Herzberg born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1868 – Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (b. 1821)
||1905: Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe born ... mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Pic.


||1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
||1906: Ernst Ruska born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Jesse Wakefield Beams (b. December 25, 1898) was an American physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone.
||1913: George Abramovich Koval born ... American who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. According to Russian sources, Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent "drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons." Pic.


||Antoni Zygmund (b. December 25, 1900) was a Polish mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis.
||1921: Piers Bohl dies ... mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions. Pic: https://timenote.info/en/Piers-Bohl


||1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1927: Ichirō Satake born ... mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. He was considered an iconic figure in the theory of linear algebraic groups and symmetric spaces. Pic.


||Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe (born 25 December 1905) was an Austrian mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Pic.
||1929: Percy Alexander MacMahon dies ... mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. Pic.


||1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
||1930: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search.


||Eugen Goldstein (b. 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.
||1935: Submarine ''Plongeur'' decommissioned. Pic.


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1932: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.  
||1946: The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.


||1946 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
||1953: William Haselden dies ... cartoonist.


||1953 – William Haselden, British cartoonist (b. 1872)
|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].


File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].
||1961: Otto Loewi dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
||1961: Reinhold Rudenberg dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. Pic search.


||Reinhold Rudenberg (or Rüdenberg; d. December 25, 1961) was a German-American electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields.
||1962: The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


||1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
||1966: St. Elmo Brady dies ... African American chemist and educator. Pic.


|File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from [[Vandal Savage Press]].
||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.


||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
||1973: Gabriel Voisin dies ... aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight. Pic.


||Gabriel Voisin (February 5, 1880 – December 25, 1973) was an aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight
||1975: Gunnar Kangro dies ... mathematician and author. Pic.


||1975 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
||1981: Physicist Heinrich Johann Welker dies.  Welker invented the "transistron", a transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories. He did fundamental work in III-V compound semiconductors, and paved the way for microwave semiconductor elements and laser diodes.


||1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
||1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.


||1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (b. 1899)
||1993: Pierre Victor Auger dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||Willard Van Orman Quine (d. December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." Pic.
||2000: Willard Van Orman Quine dies ... philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." Pic.


||2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
||2003: The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.


||2004 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940)
||2004: Gennadi Strekalov dies ... engineer and astronaut.


||2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
||2004: The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.


File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas.
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  • 1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

    1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

  • 2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

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