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02 Dec 1547
Hernán Cortés |
death Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer (born 1485) |
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02 Dec 1678
Nicolaas Kruik |
birth Nicolaas Kruik Nicolaas Kruik (Cruquius), cartographer and meteorologist (died 1754) |
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02 Dec 1703
Ferdinand Konščak |
birth Ferdinand Konščak Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (died 1759) |
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02 Dec 1755
Eddystone Lighthouse |
Eddystone Lighthouse (technology) The second Eddystone Lighthouse (1709–1755), with a wooden cone, catches fire and burns to the ground; it will be rebuilt in stone. |
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02 Dec 1759
James Edward Smith |
birth James Edward Smith James Edward Smith, English botanist (died 1828) |
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02 Dec 1833
Daniel von Recklinghausen |
birth Daniel von Recklinghausen Daniel von Recklinghausen (died 1910), pathologist. |
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02 Dec 1885
George Minot |
birth George Minot George Minot (died 1950), American Nobel laureate in physiology |
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02 Dec 1895
W. Conway Pierce |
birth W. Conway Pierce W. Conway Pierce (died 1974), American chemist. |
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02 Dec 1899
new moon |
new moon (astronomy) During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranus (technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies), Ceres and Pallas. |
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02 Dec 1923
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen |
death Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (born 1834), surveyor, geologist and naturalist. |
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02 Dec 1942
Chicago Pile-1 |
Chicago Pile-1 (physics) Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical under the squash court of the University of Chicago, thanks to the efforts of Enrico Fermi, Leó Szilárd, George Weil and the rest of the Chicago pile team. |
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02 Dec 1957
Shippingport Atomic Power Station |
Shippingport Atomic Power Station (technology) Reactor goes critical in Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Pennsylvania, the first commercial pressurized water reactor. |
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02 Dec 1982
University of Utah |
University of Utah (medicine) At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart; he lives for 112 days with the device. |
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02 Dec 1987
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich |
death Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), Belarusian astrophysicist. |
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02 Dec 1993
STS-61 |
STS-61 (astronomy and space ) STS-61 is launched. This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installs corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allow the telescope to focus properly, but also increase magnification/clarity beyond the original design. HST had been pre-designed for such continuous improvement. |
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