Historical Events
- Dec 1 1st White House telephone installed
- Dec 3 Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
- Dec 9 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
- Dec 12 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
- Dec 18 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanelles, 210 killed
- Dec 18 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania
- Dec 26 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
- Dec 28 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 1 Arthur B Spingarn, US NAACP-chairman (1940-65)
- Dec 5 Arrigo Pedrollo, composer
- Dec 7 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
- Dec 10 Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d. 1972)
- Dec 15 Hans Carossa, German writer, born in Tölz, Bavaria (d. 1956)
Joseph Stalin
Dec 18 Joseph Stalin, Dictator and General Secretary of the Soviet Union (1941-53), born in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1953)
Joseph Stalin
- Dec 19 Anton Lajovic, composer
- Dec 21 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
- Dec 23 Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
- Dec 25 W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
- Dec 25 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941)
- Dec 26 Isaiah Bowman, American geography/co-founder (Geographical Review)
- Dec 30 William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
- Dec 31 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1937)
- Dec 31 Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966)
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Dec 4 Novelist Bram Stoker (31) weds Florence Balcombe (20) in Dublin, Ireland
Bram Stoker