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Science on the 14th of December in history

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Date	Type	Text
14 Dec 1503 Nostradamus	science	birth Nostradamus Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer (died 1566)	0
14 Dec 1546 Tycho Brahe	science	birth Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1601).	0
14 Dec 1739 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours	science	birth Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (died 1817)	0
14 Dec 1782 Montgolfier brothers	science	Montgolfier brothers (aviation) The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).	0
14 Dec 1867 Spanish	science	Spanish (technology) Spanish inventor Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol submerges his submarine Ictineo II at Barcelona, demonstrating its chemically-fired anaerobic steam propulsion system.	0
14 Dec 1873 Louis Agassiz	science	death Louis Agassiz Louis Agassiz (born 1807), zoologist and geologist	0
14 Dec 1909 Edward Lawrie Tatum	science	birth Edward Lawrie Tatum Edward Lawrie Tatum (died 1975), American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
14 Dec 1911 Norwegian	science	Norwegian (exploration) Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole.	0
14 Dec 1931 Alan Blumlein	science	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.	0
14 Dec 1940 Plutonium	science	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.	0
14 Dec 1952 conjoined twins	science	conjoined twins (medicine) The first successful surgical separation of conjoined twins is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.	0
14 Dec 1955 Annular solar eclipse	science	Annular solar eclipse (astronomy) Annular solar eclipse.	0
14 Dec 1989 Andrei Sakharov	science	death Andrei Sakharov Andrei Sakharov (born 1921), nuclear physicist.	0

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