Events in History
- Dec 9 American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
- Dec 9 Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
Event of Interest
Dec 30 Associated Banks in NYC halt gold payments to government and investors, to disrupt Abraham Lincoln's US bank reform program
- Dec 31 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record
Birthdays in History
- Dec 5 Armando Diaz, Italian marshal and minister of War (1922-24), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1928)
- Dec 8 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor (Seated Woman), born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon, France (d. 1944)
- Dec 8 William C. Durant, American industry pioneer, founded General Motors, Frigidaire, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- Dec 15 Charles Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US), born in Canton, Illinois (d. 1938)
- Dec 16 Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
- Dec 19 Constance Garnett, English translator of Russian (first to translate Chekhov and Dostoevsky into English), born in Brighton England (d. 1946)
- Dec 19 Italo Svevo, Italian writer (La Coscienza di Zeno), born in Trieste Austria (d. 1928)
- Dec 20 Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1926)
- Dec 22 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology), born in Clausthal, Germany (d. 1936)
- Dec 25 Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
- Dec 26 Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory), born in Lugau, Saxony, German Federation (d. 1941)
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