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| 1) 1990 Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. | 2) 1942 Physicists successfully achieve atomic fission as part of the secret Manhattan Project - Nuclear Power Timeline | 3) 1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. | ||||
| 4) 1945 Canada's first female astronaut in space, Roberta Bondar is born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | 5) 1983 Selection of the first six Canadian astronauts Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Ken Money, Robert Thirsk and Bjarni Tryggvason | 6) National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women | 7) 1963 The use of instant replay is used for the first time in 1963 but not until 2008 in baseball. | 8) Jan Ingenhousz discovers photosynthesis | 9) 1968 Doug Engelbart introduces the first computer mouse. | 10) 1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's Law from his theory of gravity is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. International Human Rights Day |
| 11) 1844 Nitrous oxide is used for the first time in dentistry. | 12) 1901 Guglielmo Marconi receives the first radio signal transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean. | 13) 1972 Third and final EVA (Extra vehicular activity) of Apollo 17. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. | 14) 2004 The Millau viaduct , the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. | 15) 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. | 16) 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. | 17) 1903 The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
| 18) 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. | 19) 1997 The movie Titanic , one of the highest-grossing movies of all-time, opens in North America, 85 years after the great ship sank in 1912. | 20) 1951 The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. | 21) First Day of Winter (Winter Solstice) Cross Curricular Activities and Resources | 22) 1937 The Lincoln Tunnel in New York opened to traffic. | 23) 1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. | 24) 1906 The first radio broadcast, by Reginald Fessenden , is transmitted. It consists of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. |
| 25) 1882 The first string of Christmas Tree Lights , created by Thomas Edison's associate, Edward H. Johnson, is hung on a Christmas Tree. | 26) 1982 Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. | 27) 1978 The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the South Pole recorded temperatures of minus 13.6 °C, making it the highest temperature to ever be recorded in the South Pole. | 28) 1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. | 29) 1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology . | 30) 1924 "Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies. | 31) 1879 Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates the electric incandescent lamp . |