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01 Dec 1525
Tadeáš Hájek |
birth Tadeáš Hájek Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (died 1600) |
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01 Dec 1580
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc |
birth Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637) |
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01 Dec 1608
Oswald Croll |
death Oswald Croll Oswald Croll, German chemist and physician (born c1560) |
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01 Dec 1610
English |
English (astronomy) English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first to view sunspots through a telescope |
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01 Dec 1656
Christiaan Huygens |
Christiaan Huygens (technology) Christiaan Huygens designs the first working pendulum clock, which is sufficiently accurate to be fitted with both a minute hand and a second hand. |
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01 Dec 1690
planet |
planet (astronomy) Earliest recorded sightings of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri. |
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01 Dec 1729
Giacomo F. Maraldi |
death Giacomo F. Maraldi Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (born 1665) |
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01 Dec 1743
Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
birth Martin Heinrich Klaproth Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (died 1817) |
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01 Dec 1750
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr |
death Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1677) |
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01 Dec 1794
Glasgow Royal Infirmary |
Glasgow Royal Infirmary (medicine) Glasgow Royal Infirmary first opens in Scotland. |
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01 Dec 1802
Luke Howard |
Luke Howard (meteorology) Luke Howard presents the basis of the modern classification and nomenclature of clouds, at a lecture in London. |
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01 Dec 1836
Victoria Bridge, Bath |
Victoria Bridge, Bath (technology) Victoria Bridge, Bath, England, opened, the first to use James Dredge's patent 'taper principle' of stays. |
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01 Dec 1859
Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Joseph Dalton Hooker (biology) Joseph Dalton Hooker's Introductory Essay to the Flora Tasmaniae supports Darwin's theories. |
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01 Dec 1864
Carsten Borchgrevink |
birth Carsten Borchgrevink Carsten Borchgrevink (died 1934), Norwegian Antarctic explorer. |
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01 Dec 1866
George Everest |
death George Everest George Everest (born 1790), surveyor and geographer. |
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01 Dec 1867
Ignacy Mościcki |
birth Ignacy Mościcki Ignacy Mościcki (died 1946), chemist and President of Poland. |
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01 Dec 1881
Eduard von Hofmann |
Eduard von Hofmann (medicine) Eduard von Hofmann carries out autopsy studies of the nearly 400 victims of the Vienna Ringtheater fire, carbon monoxide poisoning being held an underlying cause of death. |
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01 Dec 1882
Swedish |
Swedish (mathematics) Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler establishes the journal Acta Mathematica. |
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01 Dec 1893
Eugène Gabritschevsky |
birth Eugène Gabritschevsky Eugène Gabritschevsky (died 1979), Russian biologist and artist. |
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01 Dec 1918
John R.F. Jeffreys |
birth John R.F. Jeffreys John R.F. Jeffreys (died 1944), mathematician and cryptanalysist. |
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01 Dec 1919
XWA |
XWA (technology) XWA, in Montreal, Quebec, is the first public radio station in North America to broadcast. |
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01 Dec 1925
Martin Rodbell |
birth Martin Rodbell Martin Rodbell (died 1998), American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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01 Dec 1928
Maurzyce Bridge |
Maurzyce Bridge (technology) Completion of the Maurzyce Bridge near Łowicz in central Poland, the world's first road bridge of wholly welded construction, designed by Stefan Bryła. |
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01 Dec 1932
Marian Rejewski |
Marian Rejewski (mathematics) Marian Rejewski of the Polish Biuro Szyfrów applies pure mathematics – permutation group theory – to breaking the German armed forces' Enigma machine ciphers. |
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01 Dec 1940
Finn Ronne |
Finn Ronne (exploration) Finn Ronne and Carl Eklund of the United States Antarctic Service determine that Alexander I Land is an island. |
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01 Dec 1947
G. H. Hardy |
death G. H. Hardy G. H. Hardy (born 1877), English mathematician. |
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01 Dec 1952
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane |
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (medicine) Robert Gwyn Macfarlane and colleagues publish the first identification of Haemophilia B. |
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01 Dec 1956
Martin Gardner |
Martin Gardner (mathematics) Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. |
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01 Dec 1959
programming language |
programming language (computer science) The specification for the programming language COBOL is completed. |
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01 Dec 1964
J. B. S. Haldane |
death J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane (born 1892), British geneticist. |
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01 Dec 1976
Electric Pencil |
Electric Pencil (computer science) Release of Electric Pencil (originated by Michael Shrayer), the first word processor for home computers. |
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01 Dec 1977
Lockheed Have Blue |
Lockheed Have Blue (technology) Lockheed Have Blue becomes the first stealth aircraft to fly. |
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01 Dec 1983
Yugoslav |
Yugoslav (computer science) Yugoslav popular science magazine Galaksija releases a special (January 1984) issue, Računari u vašoj kući, with complete instructions on how to build a full-featured home computer, Galaksija. |
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01 Dec 1987
Channel Tunnel |
Channel Tunnel (technology) Channel Tunnel digging commences. |
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01 Dec 2001
Budapest Open Access Initiative |
Budapest Open Access Initiative (computer science) The Budapest Open Access Initiative, a public statement of principles promoting open access to research literature, is launched at a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute. |
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01 Dec 2001
C# programming language |
C# programming language (computer science) The C# programming language specification is released. |
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