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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 ...
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.
Srinivasa Ramanujan[ a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.
28 July 1946. 12 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI[ 59 ][ 60 ] She was the first woman of Indian origin to be canonised as a saint by the Catholic Church [ 61 ] Alphonsus Liguori [ 62 ] 27 September 1696. 1 August 1787. 26 May 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI[ 63 ][ 64 ] Doctor of Church [ 63 ] Alphonsus Rodriguez.
December 1. 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.
Raymond Parks. (m. 1932; died 1977) Signature. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom ...
The Oberwolfach Photo Collection – Photographs of mathematicians from all over the world; Photos of mathematicians – Collection of photos of mathematicians (and computer scientists) made by Andrej Bauer. Famous Mathematicians; Calendar of mathematicians' birthdays and death anniversaries
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.