Template:Selected anniversaries/December 16
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath Francis Galton discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1967:Extract of Radium to party Edward Lear.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.