Template:Selected anniversaries/December 8

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  1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.

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  1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.

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  1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

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  1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

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  1884: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invented the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) be responsible for the first projected animated films.

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  1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.

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  1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.

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  2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

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  2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.