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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]].
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]].


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


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.


||1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
||1805: Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin born ... magician.


||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.
||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.


||1856 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic dies. Statue pic.
||1856: Mathematician and academic. Walther von Dyck dies. Statue pic.


||1863 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
||1863: Charles Martin Hall born ... chemist and engineer.


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


||1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
||1867: Jean Pierre Flourens dies ... physiologist and academic.


||1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
||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.


||1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
||1876: Fred Duesenberg born ... businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company.


||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
||1890: Yoshio Nishina born ... physicist and academic.


||Johann Rudolf Wolf (d. 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
||1892: Werner von Siemens dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company.


||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
||1893: Johann Rudolf Wolf dies ... astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.


||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (b. December 6, 1900) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
||1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.


||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.
||1900: George Eugene Uhlenbeck born ... theoretical physicist.


||1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
||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.


||1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician.


||1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
||1908: Baby Face Nelson born ... gangster.


||John L. Kelley (b. December 6, 1916) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
||1908: Herta Freitag born ... mathematician/


||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.
||1916: John L. Kelley born ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.


||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.
||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.


||1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1919: Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr born ... 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.


||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.
||1920: George Porter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate/


||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.
||1924: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky born ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.
 
||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.


||1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
||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.
||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, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
||1949: Doug Marlette born ... author and cartoonist.


||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.
||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.
||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, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
||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.
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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]].
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]].


|| 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.
||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.


||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.
||1967: George Elbert Kimball dies ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II.


||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.
||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.


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


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]].

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