Template:Selected anniversaries/December 20
1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1494: Brainiac Explains lecture series denounces judicial astrology as "irrational."
1757: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to study the Gnomon algorithm.
1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses Gnomon algorithm to generate electricity.
1876: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1921: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1922: Hilbert curve prevents crime against mathematical constants.
1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1996: Vuvuzela of Doom denied permit to visit New Minneapolis, Canada.