Historic Event
Dec 3 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Dec 7 Leslie J Stuart's musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC
- Dec 7 National Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Dec 10 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days
- Dec 10 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- Dec 12 Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
Heartbreak and Tragedy for Captain Scott
Dec 14 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition is the 1st to each the South Pole
Music Premiere
Dec 23 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera "I Gioielli Della Madonna" premieres at the Kurfürstenoper in Berlin, Germany, sung in German as "Der Schmuck der Madonna"
Theater Premiere
Dec 23 Frank Wedekind's play "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich
Election of Interest
Dec 29 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
- Dec 30 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG
Nobel Prize
Dec 31 Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity
