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|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
File:Pierre Varignon.jpg|link=Pierre Varignon (nonfiction|1722: Mathematician and academic [[Pierre Varignon (nonfiction)|Pierre Varignon]] dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's ''Principia'', and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.


||Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (b. 23 December 1722) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.
||1722: Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt born ... mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.


||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792)
||1732: Richard Arkwright born ... businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame.


||1766 – Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist (d. 1852). Pic.
||1766: Wilhelm Hisinger born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].


||Captain François Mingaud (died 23 December 1847) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.
||1847: Captain François Mingaud dies ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.


||1884 – John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
||1900: Otto Soglow born ... cartoonist.


||1900 – Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
||1907: Pierre Jules César Janssen dies ... astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.


||Pierre Jules César Janssen (d. 23 December 1907), also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.
||1908: Hugo Hadwiger dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic.


||Hugo Hadwiger (b. 23 December 1908) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic.
||1912: Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998)


||1912 – Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998)
||1913: The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.


||1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
||1923: Harold Masursky born ... geologist and senior scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's astrogeology branch supporting space exploration. Starting in the mid 1960s, he helped analyze the photographs from the Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, and Surveyor lunar missions. In mapping the moon, suitable landing spots were being sought for the unmanned Surveyor 5 spacecraft (1967) and the manned Apollo landings (1969-72). Masursky headed the group that interpreted television transmissions from Martian satellite Mariner 9 (1971), producing maps to plan the landing of unmanned Viking spacecraft on Mars (1976). He analyzed data on the geological origins and evolution of the planets. He collaborated in foreign projects such as the Soviet Venus probes. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_24.htm


|File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]].
||1933: Rikitarō Fujisawa dies ... mathematician. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. Pic.


||Rikitarō Fujisawa (d. 23 December 1933) was a Japanese mathematician. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. Pic.
||1939: Anthony Fokker dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)


||1939 – Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)
||1947: The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
 
|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1941: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
 
||1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.


File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Wilhelm Ackermann.jpg|link=Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Ackermann (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Ackermann]] publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||Arthur Eichengrün (d. 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics
||Arthur Eichengrün (d. 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics


||Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (d. 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II.
||1953: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II.
 
||1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
 
||1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
 
||1972 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)


||Ralph Hartzler Fox (d. December 23, 1973) was an American mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory.
||1954: First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.


||Gerard Peter Kuiper (d. December 23, 1973) was a Dutch–American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Pic.
||1968: The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.
||1972: Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)


||Alfred Theodor Brauer (d. December 23, 1985) was a German-American mathematician who did work in number theory. Pic.
||1973: Ralph Hartzler Fox dies ... mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory.


||1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
||1973: Gerard Peter Kuiper dies ... astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Pic.


||Richard Rado FRS (d. 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. In graph theory, the Rado graph, a countably infinite graph containing all countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, is named after Rado. He rediscovered it in 1964 after previous works on the same graph by Wilhelm Ackermann, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi. Pic.
||1985: Alfred Theodor Brauer dies ... mathematician who did work in number theory. Pic.


|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|1999: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||1986: Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.


||Donald Clayton Spencer (d. December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations.  
||1989: Richard Rado dies ... mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. In graph theory, the Rado graph, a countably infinite graph containing all countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, is named after Rado. He rediscovered it in 1964 after previous works on the same graph by Wilhelm Ackermann, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi. Pic.


|File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2012: Festival at [[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]] celebrates history of [[scrying engines]].
||2001: Donald Clayton Spencer dies ... mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations.  


||2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
||2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov dies ... Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle.


||2014 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
||2014: Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic.


||December 23 is the fictional date of the [[Zendian problem (nonfiction)|Zendian problem]], a US Army cryptography training exercise involving 375 radio messages said to have been intercepted on December 23 by the US Army contingent of a United Nations force landed on the fictional island of Zendia in the Pacific Ocean.
||December 23 is the fictional date of the [[Zendian problem (nonfiction)|Zendian problem]], a US Army cryptography training exercise involving 375 radio messages said to have been intercepted on December 23 by the US Army contingent of a United Nations force landed on the fictional island of Zendia in the Pacific Ocean.


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Revision as of 16:45, 17 August 2018

  • 1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.

    1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.

  • 1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.

    1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.

  • 1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

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