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||1083: Anna Komnene born ... physician and scholar.
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 dies ... goldsmith and sculptor.
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 born ... physician and astronomer.
 
||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian.
 
||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.
 
||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician.
 
||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic.
 
||1750: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.
 
||1768: The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
 
||1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky born ... mathematician and geometer.
 
||1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
 
||1845: Eduard Riecke born ... 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 born ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1928: Lee Albert Rubel born ... 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.
File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|link=Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Transdimensional analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] accidentally causes an [[Evil bit release]] event.
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2004: [[Evil bit release|Evil bit released a year ago]] celebrates its first year of freedom.
||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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