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December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
1577 – Francis Walsingham (pictured), Elizabeth I of England 's principal secretary and spymaster, was knighted. 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday. 1934 – Soviet politician Sergei Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
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December 2: 1885 – Birth of George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950) 1931 – Birth of Nigel Calder, British science writer. 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. December 3:
Wikipedia. : Selected anniversaries/December. 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign ...
18 February 1745 – Alessandro Volta 's birthday. 15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered. 18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach 's birthday. 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison 's birthday. 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss 's death.
January 1. 1614: John Wilkins born. 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born. 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born. 3. 106 BC: Cicero born. 1901: Eric Voegelin born. 4. 1642 ...
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6] The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as " Wikipedia for Generation Z ".