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  1. Jan 2

    January 2, 1492 The last Muslim Moor invader of Spain, Muhammad XII of Granada, surrendered to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The Reconquista of Spain was now complete.

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  2. Jan 1

    January 1, 1878 Danish scientist Agner Krarup Erlang was born. The inventor of the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory (the mathematical study of waiting lines).

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  3. Jan 1

    January 1, 1874 German-American aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead was born in Leutershausen. Designer & builder of early flying machines. It was reported in August 1901 that he had made a powered controlled flight in Connecticut, two years before the Wright brothers.

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  4. Jan 1

    January 1, 1801 Italian priest-astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System.

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  5. Jan 1

    January 1, 1801 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed by the merger of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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  6. Jan 1

    January 1, 1515 Francis I was crowned King of France in the Cathedral of Reims. As a major patron of the arts, he promoted great cultural, intellectual, and artistic advances in France during his reign.

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  7. Jan 1

    January 1, 1000 Stephen I of Hungary, the founder of the Kingdom of Hungary, was crowned as their first King.

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    29 Dec 2017

    : 29 December 1888, pioneering astrophotographer Isaac Roberts took the first detailed picture of another galaxy: the Great Nebula in . The photo revealed that the nebula had a spiral structure, which was unexpected at the time. See

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  9. 29 Dec 2017

    December 29, 1766 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh was born in Glasgow. The inventor of rubberized waterproof clothing.

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  10. 25 Dec 2017

    Merry Christmas!

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  11. 22 Dec 2017

    Dec 22, 1790 Russian Army commander Alexander Suvorov stormed the fortress of Izmail, in Izmail, Ukraine. Thus liberating it from 400 years of Ottoman rule. The victory was glorified in Russia's first national anthem, "Let the thunder of victory sound!".

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  12. 19 Dec 2017

    December 19, 1154 Henry II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

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  13. 18 Dec 2017

    Dec 18, 1898 French race car driver Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first automobile land speed record, using a using a Jeantaud electric car. He completed a single 1 kilometer run in 57 seconds to give an average speed of 63.13 km/h (39 mph).

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  14. 18 Dec 2017

    Dec 18, 1890 American electrical engineer Edwin Armstrong was born in New York. The inventor of FM radio.

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  15. 18 Dec 2017

    Dec 18, 1856 British physicist Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson was born in Manchester. He is credited with the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer.

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  16. 16 Dec 2017

    Dec 16, 1770 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn.

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  17. 10 Dec 2017

    Dec 10, 1974 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) launched the Helios I space probe, with help from NASA. It is notable for having set a maximum speed record among spacecraft at 252,792 km/h (about 70km/s), also roughly 0.0002 times the speed of light.

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  18. 10 Dec 2017

    Dec 10, 1868 The world's first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament. The work was done by the railway engineer J.P. Knight. The device was a revolving gas-powered lantern with a red and a green light.

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  19. 10 Dec 2017

    Couldn't we just borrow the recipe?

    Anyone who thinks diversity will lead to a “lower quality of life” has clearly never been to an ethnic food festival.
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  20. 7 Dec 2017

    Dec 7, 1888 Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop received a patent for the first practical inflatable tire, which he used on his son's tricycle.

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