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- Dec 11 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed
- Dec 12 The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%
- Dec 14 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
- Dec 15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
- Dec 15 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
- Dec 15 Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
- Dec 16 French offensive in Artois (Pétain)
- Dec 16 World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
- Dec 17 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
- Dec 17 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
- Dec 17 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
Film Release
Dec 21 1st feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
Marie Dressler
Charlie Chaplin
- Dec 21 2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances
- Dec 23 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
- Dec 24 German plane drops bombs on Dover England
- Dec 25 Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting, soldiers exchange gifts and play football
- Dec 26 US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, on the same day Germans announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; weakens America's protest
- Dec 28 Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
- Dec 31 Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Captain Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000