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14 Dec 1503
![]() Nostradamus |
birth Nostradamus Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer (died 1566) |
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14 Dec 1546
![]() Tycho Brahe |
birth Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1601). |
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14 Dec 1739
![]() Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours |
birth Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (died 1817) |
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14 Dec 1782
![]() Montgolfier brothers |
Montgolfier brothers (aviation) The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi). |
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14 Dec 1867
![]() Spanish |
Spanish (technology) Spanish inventor Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol submerges his submarine Ictineo II at Barcelona, demonstrating its chemically-fired anaerobic steam propulsion system. |
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14 Dec 1873
![]() Louis Agassiz |
death Louis Agassiz Louis Agassiz (born 1807), zoologist and geologist |
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14 Dec 1909
![]() Edward Lawrie Tatum |
birth Edward Lawrie Tatum Edward Lawrie Tatum (died 1975), American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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14 Dec 1911
![]() Norwegian |
Norwegian (exploration) Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole. |
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14 Dec 1931
![]() Alan Blumlein |
Alan Blumlein (technology) British electronics engineer Alan Blumlein of EMI submits a U.K. patent application for "Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems" – binaural or stereophonic sound. |
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14 Dec 1940
![]() Plutonium |
Plutonium (chemistry) Plutonium is first synthesized by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan at the University of California, Berkeley by bombarding uranium-238 with deuterons. |
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14 Dec 1952
![]() conjoined twins |
conjoined twins (medicine) The first successful surgical separation of conjoined twins is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. |
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14 Dec 1955
![]() Annular solar eclipse |
Annular solar eclipse (astronomy) Annular solar eclipse. |
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14 Dec 1989
![]() Andrei Sakharov |
death Andrei Sakharov Andrei Sakharov (born 1921), nuclear physicist. |