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World AIDS Day
1959 A treaty is signed establishing Antarctica as a scientific preserve
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1942 Physicists successfully achieve atomic fission as part of the secret Manhattan Project - Nuclear Power Timeline
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1967 Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performs the first heart transplant
1973 U.S. Satellite Pioneer 10 transmits close-up photographs of Jupiter
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1945 Canada's first female astronaut in space, Roberta Bondar is born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
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1983 Selection of the first six Canadian astronauts Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Ken Money, Robert Thirsk and Bjarni Tryggvason
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National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
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1972 The Apollo 17 is the last mission to leave for the moon
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Jan Ingenhousz discovers photosynthesis - Magic School Bus - Photosynthesis
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1968 Computer mouse introduced to the computing world - First Computer Mouse
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1903 Marie Curie becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
International Human Rights Day
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1844 Nitrous oxide is used for the first time in dentistry
Chanukah begins
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1901 Guglielmo Marconi receives the first radio signal transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean - Radio Waves Resources - Grade 4 to 6
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1816 John Adamson is issued a patent for a dry dock
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1962 The U.S. Mariner 2 spacecraft beams the first close-up photographs of Venus
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1861 Charles Edgar Duryea is born - An American inventor who with his brother J. Frank Duryea built the first successful gas powered car and set up the first American car manufacturing company
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1920 Haiyuan earthquake - A deadly 8.6 earthquake hits the Gansu province in China killing 200,000 people
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Wright Brothers Day - 1903 The Wright Brothers make four flights in their Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina . Orville Wright takes off first and flies 120 ft (37 m) in 12 seconds. This is frequently considered the first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight and is the first such flight photographed.
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1926 Gilbert N. Lewis coins the word "photon"
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1944 Anthropologist and paleontologist Richard Leakey is born
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1883 The international cantilever railway bridge at Niagara Falls) is opened
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First Day of Winter (Winter Solstice) Cross Curricular Activities and Resources
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1937 The Lincoln Tunnel in New York opened to traffic
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1900 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden of Quebec transmits the first wireless voice broadcast near Washington, D.C.
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1906 Fessenden uses his heterodyne principle to transmit the first audio radio broadcast in history
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1882 The first string of Christmas Tree lights created by Edison's associate, Edward H. Johnson , is hung on a Christmas Tree - The Story of Christmas Tree Lights
Christmas Day (Western)
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2004 Tsunami wreaks havoc on Southeast Asia
Kwanzaa begins
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1571 Astronomer Johannes Kepler's birthday
1822 Louis Pasteur's birthday
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1869 Chewing gum is patented
1953 Chemist Mary Ann White is born in London, Ontario
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1987 Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko ends his record 326 days in space
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1982 A "blue moon" and total lunar eclipse occur simultaneously
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1879 Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates the electric incandescent lamp
Blue Moon
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