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||Pope Clement VI dies ... the fourth Avignon pope. Clement reigned during the first visitation of the Black Death (1348–1350), during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague. His papal bull ''Unigenitus'' justified the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. No DOB. Pic.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.


File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and counteract [[geometry solvent]].
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
 
||1771: Giovanni Battista Morgagni dies ... anatomist and pathologist ...  the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua. His most significant literary contribution, the monumental five-volume On the Seats and Causes of Disease, embodied a lifetime of experience in anatomical dissection and observation, and established the fundamental principle that most diseases are not vaguely dispersed throughout the body, but originate locally, in specific organs and tissues. Pic.


||1778 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
||1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.


File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.


||1790 The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
||1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
 
||1799: Joseph Black dies ... physician and chemist ... known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. Pic.


||1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
||1815: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils dies ... confirmed the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and independently discovered iridium in 1803. Pic.


||1815: died: Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils was a French chemist. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.
||1823: Edme-Samuel Castaing born ... physician thought to have been the first person to use morphine to commit murder. No DOB. Pic.


||1856 Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic dies. Statue pic.
||1856: Mathematician and academic. Walther von Dyck dies. Pic: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/presse/presse-2006/nachlass-von-dyck/


||1863 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
||1860: Nikolaĭ Semenovich Kurnakov born ... chemist who was internationally recognized as the originator of physicochemical analysis and he was one of the principal founders of the platinum industry in the USSR. A chemical reaction that he pioneered, known as the Kurnakov test, is still used to differentiate cis from trans isomers of divalent platinum and is his best-known contribution to coordination chemistry. Pic.


||Abraham Cressy Morrison (b. December 6, 1864) was an American chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences.
||1863: Charles Martin Hall born ... chemist and engineer. Pic.


||1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
||1864: Abraham Cressy Morrison born ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic.


||1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
||1867: Jean Pierre Flourens dies ... physiologist and academic. Pic.


||1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
||1867: Jean Claude Eugène Péclet dies ... physicist and academic ... The Péclet number is named after him.  Pic.


||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
||1872: Félix-Archimède Pouchet dies ... naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. Pouchet effectively launched the study of the physiology of cytology. Pic.


||Johann Rudolf Wolf (d. 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
||1876: Fred Duesenberg born ... businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company.


||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
||1879: Erastus Brigham Bigelow dies ... inventor, weaving machines. Pic.


||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (b. December 6, 1900) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
||1884: Heinrich Scholz born ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic.


||1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
||1890: Yoshio Nishina born ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech).


||1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
||1892: Werner von Siemens dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company.


||1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
||1893: Rudolf Wolf dies ... astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Pic.


||1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
||1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.


||John L. Kelley (b. December 6, 1916) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
||1900: George Uhlenbeck born ... theoretical physicist. Pic.


||1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
||1901: Eliot Porter born ... photographer, chemist, and academic. Pic search.


||Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (b. December 6, 1919) was an American physicist, the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.
||1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.


||1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician. Pic: http://sites.jmu.edu/jmuresearch/tag/j-barkley-rosser/


||Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky (b. 6 December 1924) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics. Pic.
||1908: Baby Face Nelson born ... gangster.


||1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
||1908: Herta Freitag born ... mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Pic.


||1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
||1916: John L. Kelley born ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.


||1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
||1917: Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.


||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
File:Clyde Cowan.jpg|link=Clyde Cowan (nonfiction)|1919: Physicist [[Clyde Cowan (nonfiction)|Clyde Cowan]] born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.


||Frans Michel Penning (d. 6 December 1953) was a Dutch experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
||1920: George Porter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
||1924: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky born ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.


||1959 Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
||1928: The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
 
||1931: John Evan Baldwin born ... 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.
 
||1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' is not obscene.
 
||1941: World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
 
||1949: Doug Marlette born ... author and cartoonist.
 
||1952: Lilian Vaughan Morgan dies ... experimental biologist who made seminal contributions to the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, which cemented its status as one of the most powerful model systems in biology. Pic.
 
||1953: Frans Michel Penning dies ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
 
||1957: Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
 
||1959: Satoru Iwata born ... game programmer and businessman.


File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.


File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1960: Astronomer, astrophysicist, and criminal investigator [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] publishes new theory of stellar metallicity which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.


|| Archibald Henderson (d. December 6, 1963) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
||1967: George Elbert Kimball dies ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search.


||George Elbert Kimball (d. December 6, 1967) was an American professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II.
||1973: Joseph L. Walsh dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.


||Joseph L. Walsh (d. December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.
||1974: Robert Ludvigovich Bartini dies ... aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union. Pic search.


||1980 Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
||1980: Charles Deutsch dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded DB.


File:George_Brecht.jpg|link=George Brecht (nonfiction)|2005: Chemist, composer, and crime-fighter [[George Brecht (nonfiction)|George Brecht]] uses conceptual art to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
||1990: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin dies. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search.
 
||2005: Richard Grimsdale dies ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped to design the world's first transistorized computer. Pic: https://www.eg.org/wp/obituaries/


File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


||File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
||2010: Norman Hetherington dies ... cartoonist and puppeteer. Pic.
 
||2013: Robert Mortimer Ellis dies - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


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