Event of Interest
Dec 6 Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
Theodore Roosevelt
- Dec 10 King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
Ivan Pavlov
- Dec 10 Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 John William Strutt [Lord Rayleigh] and William Ramsay are presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of Argon
John William Strutt
- Dec 12 CMS McClellan's "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC
- Dec 19 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
- Dec 24 German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
- Dec 27 Stage play "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie premieres at the Duke of York Theatre in London
- Dec 27 W B Yeats and Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand" premieres in Dublin
- Dec 28 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
- Dec 31 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square, New York City