National Mathematics Day (India)

In December 2011, in recognition of his contribution to mathematics, the Government of India declared that Ramanujan's birthday http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/12/srinivasa-ramanujan.html should be celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day, and also declared 2012 the National Mathematics Year.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887. He was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. He died on  26 April 1920.

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International Migrants Day

International Migrants Day is an international day observed on December 18 as International Migrants Day appointed by the General Assembly of United Nations on December 4, 2000 taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world.

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First Airplane

 The Wright brothers  (Orville & Wilbur )were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

Philip Warren Anderson was born December 13, 1923 is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking, high-temperature superconductivity and to the philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.

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Robert Norton Noyce

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was born on December 12, 1927 and died on June 3, 1990. 

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. He has won the World Chess Championship five times. He was born on December 11, 1969.

Human Rights Day

Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December.  The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Enacted

 

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 was Enacted by Parliament of India on 9 December 1881. Act come into force on the first day of March, 1882. Its an Act to define and Law relating to negotiable instruments which are Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange and cheques.

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. He was born on December 8, 1765 and died on January 8, 1825.

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International Civil Aviation Day

In 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 7 December was to be the International Civil Aviation Day. The day had been celebrated by the International Civil Aviation Organization since 7 December 1994, the 50th anniversary of the signing the Convention on International Civil Aviation

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Nelson Mandela Passed away

 

Nelson Mandela, who guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy and became an international icon of peace and reconciliation, died Thursday (5 December 2013) at age 95. He was born born 18 July 1918, he is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial election.
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Demolition of Babri Masjid

On December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely destroyed the 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India, in an attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram Janmabhoomi. The demolition occurred after a religious ceremony turned violent and resulted in several months of intercommunal rioting between India's Hindu and Muslim communities, causing the death of at least 2,000 people.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg was born on 5 December 1901. He was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. He died on1 February 1976.

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Robert Adler

Robert Adler was born on December 4, 1913, he was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. He died on February 15, 2007. The invention Adler is best known for is the wireless remote control for televisions. While not the first remote control, its underlying technology was a vast improvement over previous remote control systems.

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Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad was born on December 3, 1884, he was an Indian political leader who served as the first President of the Republic of India from 1950 to 1962. He was died on February 28, 1963.

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Advocate's day

Advocate's day is celebrated in India by the lawyer community on December 3 to mark the birth anniversary of Rajendra Prasad, First President and a very eminent lawyer.

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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is a yearly event on December 2, organized by the United Nations General Assembly. The Day was first celebrated in 1986.

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World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.

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Cities for Life Day

Cities for Life Day is a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year.

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