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Science on the 9th of December in history

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Date	Type	Text
09 Dec 1508 Gemma Frisius	science	birth Gemma Frisius Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555).	0
09 Dec 1571 Metius	science	birth Metius Metius, Dutch mathematician (died 1635)	0
09 Dec 1703 Chester Moore Hall	science	birth Chester Moore Hall Chester Moore Hall, English scientific instrument maker (died 1771)	0
09 Dec 1718 Vincenzo Coronelli	science	death Vincenzo Coronelli Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (born 1650)	0
09 Dec 1742 Carl Wilhelm Scheele	science	birth Carl Wilhelm Scheele Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (died 1786).	0
09 Dec 1748 Claude Louis Berthollet	science	birth Claude Louis Berthollet Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died 1822)	0
09 Dec 1814 Joseph Bramah	science	death Joseph Bramah Joseph Bramah, English inventor (born 1748).	0
09 Dec 1868 Fritz Haber	science	birth Fritz Haber Fritz Haber (died 1934), chemist.	0
09 Dec 1874 transit of Venus	science	transit of Venus (astronomy) a transit of Venus across the Sun is observed in Muddapur, India, by an astronomical expedition led by Pietro Tacchini	0
09 Dec 1886 Clarence Birdseye	science	birth Clarence Birdseye Clarence Birdseye, American founder of the modern frozen food industry (died 1956)	0
09 Dec 1900 Joseph Needham	science	birth Joseph Needham Joseph Needham (died 1995), biochemist and writer on the history of science and technology in China.	0
09 Dec 1906 Grace Hopper	science	birth Grace Hopper Grace Hopper (died 1992), American computer scientist.	0
09 Dec 1939 Liberator	science	Liberator (technology) First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 "Liberator" bomber prototype.	0
09 Dec 1944 Heinkel He 162	science	Heinkel He 162 (technology) First flight of the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger, the second jet engined fighter aircraft to be introduced by the Luftwaffe in World War II.	0
09 Dec 1968 The Mother of All Demos	science	The Mother of All Demos (computer science) In what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos", Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center demonstrates for the first time the computer mouse, the video conference, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing, the dynamic linker and a collaborative real-time editor using NLS.	0
09 Dec 1979 World Health Organization	science	World Health Organization (medicine) The World Health Organization certifies the global eradication of smallpox.	0
09 Dec 1997 Karl August Folkers	science	death Karl August Folkers Karl August Folkers (b. 1906), biochemist.	0

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