Events in History
Historic Publication
Dec 3 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
Appointment of Interest
Dec 5 Jefferson Davis is appointed to fill vacant US Senate seat for Mississippi
Birthdays in History
- Dec 7 Solomon Schechter, Moldavian-American Talmudic scholar and rabbi, born in Focşani, Moldavia (d. 1915)
- Dec 17 Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
- Dec 30 John Peter Altgeld, German-American politician (Governor of Illinois, 1893-97), known for pardoning of Haymarket anarchists, born in Selters, Duchy of Nassau (now Germany) (d. 1902)
Weddings in History
Mackenzie Bowell
Dec 23 Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie Bowell (24) weds Harriet Moore
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