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||1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.


||1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 
||1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
 
||1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
 
||John Keill (b. 1671) was a Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.
 
||1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
 
||1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
 
||1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
 
||1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
 
||1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
 
||1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
 
||Eduard Riecke (b. 1 December 1845) was a German experimental physicist.
 
||1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
 
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 
||1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
 
||1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
 
||Lee Albert Rubel (b. December 1, 1928) was a mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic
 
||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... optician, invented the Schmidt camera.
 
||1940: Jerry Lawson born ... electronic engineer and inventor.
 
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
 
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.


File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.
File:Somerton_Man.jpg|link=Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|1948: [[Tamam Shud case (nonfiction)|Tamam Shud case]]: an unidentified man is found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man.
 
||1948: The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. Pic.
 
||1948: Philippe Flajolet born ... computer scientist. He will contribute to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. Pic.
 
||1952: The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
 
||1959: Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
 
||1960: Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.


||1964: Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
File:Stellated Octahedron Day.jpg|link=Stellated Octahedron Day|1967: First known occurence of '''''[[Stellated Octahedron Day]]''''' (December 1) celebrating the stellated octahedron, the only stellation of the octahedron.


File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.


||1977: Kenneth O. May dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm
||1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
||2005: Gust Avrakotos dies ... American CIA officer.
||2009: Alexander L'vovich Brudno dies ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.
||2013: Stirling Colgate dies ... physicist and academic.
||2015: Joseph Engelberger dies ... physicist and engineer ... Robotics
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  • 1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

    1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Tamam Shud case: an unidentified man is found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man.

    1948: Tamam Shud case: an unidentified man is found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man.

  • 1967: First known occurence of Stellated Octahedron Day (December 1) celebrating the stellated octahedron, the only stellation of the octahedron.

    1967: First known occurence of Stellated Octahedron Day (December 1) celebrating the stellated octahedron, the only stellation of the octahedron.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

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