DECEMBER 18 1849: William Bond obtains first photograph of Moon through a telescope 1966: Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker 1976: Wonder Woman debuts on ABC 1997: HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium

DECEMBER 19 1732: Benjamin Franklin, under the name Richard Saunders, begins publication of Poor Richard’s Almanack 2001: A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia

DECEMBER 20 1879: Thomas Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park, California, US 1935: Khalid ‘Billy’ Ibadulla, a former Pakistani cricketer born in Lahore 1980: Ashley Cole, English footballer, born in London, England 1985: Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is first)

DECEMBER 21 1898: Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium 1913: First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World 1963: Famous Indian actor Govinda born in Vivar, Mumbai

DECEMBER 22 1882: First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1929: Wazir Mohammad, former Pakistani cricketer, born in Junagarh, India 2000: Pop singer Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie marry in Scotland

DECEMBER 23 1867: Self-made millionaires Sarah Breedlove, (inventor of the hair-straightner) born in Delta, Louisiana 1938: Discovery of the first modern coelacanth (a kind of a fish) in South Africa 1954: First human kidney transplant is performed by Dr Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, USA

DECEMBER 24 1925: Mohammad Rafi, playback singer, born in a village near Amritsar in Punjab (British India) 1936: First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California 1953: Indian actor Anil Kapoor born in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai1966: Luna 13 lands on Moon