DECEMBER 181849: William Bond obtains first photograph of Moon through a telescope1966: Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker1976: Wonder Woman debuts on ABC1997: HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium
DECEMBER 191732: Benjamin Franklin, under the name Richard Saunders, begins publication of Poor Richard’s Almanack2001: A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia
DECEMBER 201879: Thomas Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park, California, US1935: Khalid ‘Billy’ Ibadulla, a former Pakistani cricketer born in Lahore1980: Ashley Cole, English footballer, born in London, England1985: Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is first)
DECEMBER 211898: Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium1913: First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World1963: Famous Indian actor Govinda born in Vivar, Mumbai
DECEMBER 221882: First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison1929: Wazir Mohammad, former Pakistani cricketer, born in Junagarh, India2000: Pop singer Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie marry in Scotland
DECEMBER 231867: Self-made millionaires Sarah Breedlove, (inventor of the hair-straightner) born in Delta, Louisiana1938: Discovery of the first modern coelacanth (a kind of a fish) in South Africa1954: First human kidney transplant is performed by Dr Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, USA
DECEMBER 241925: Mohammad Rafi, playback singer, born in a village near Amritsar in Punjab (British India)1936: First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California1953: Indian actor Anil Kapoor born in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai1966: Luna 13 lands on Moon