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||1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. | ||1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. | ||
||Martin Nodell (d. December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. | ||Martin Nodell (d. December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. | ||
||Jack Kenneth Hale (died 9 December 2009) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. | |||
||2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921) | ||2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921) | ||
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1571: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius born. He will manufacture precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1718: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli dies. He gained fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes are very large and highly detailed.
1814: Physician Golding Bird born. He will pioneer the medical use of electricity.
1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1868: Chemist Fritz Haber born. He will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
1883: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin born. He will contribute to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
1905: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo born.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
2014: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, functions as cluster of tiny scrying engines.