Events in History
- Dec 2 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
- Dec 7 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
- Dec 8 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out
- Dec 17 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.
- Dec 17 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
- Dec 29 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
Birthdays in History
- Dec 1 Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
- Dec 2 Klaas Voskuil, journalist
- Dec 3 Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
- Dec 4 Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
- Dec 4 Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
- Dec 5 Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
- Dec 14 Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
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- Dec 16 Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia
- Dec 19 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)
- Dec 19 Maurice Roelants, Flemish novelist and poet (Komen en gaan, Prayer for a Good End), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1966)
- Dec 20 Susanne Langer, American philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
- Dec 24 E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
- Dec 30 August De Boodt, Belgian politician
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Dec 19 Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts
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