Events in History
- Dec 1 Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
Historic Publication
Dec 1 "La Révolution surréaliste" publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton
- Dec 2 British-German trade agreement signed
- Dec 7 German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
- Dec 9 Netherlands & Hungary trade treaty signed
- Dec 9 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
- Dec 12 Spanish troops leave Morocco
- Dec 13 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
Election of Interest
Dec 16 Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the US Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor
Coup d'état
Dec 20 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"
- Dec 22 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC
- Dec 24 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
- Dec 24 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
- Dec 24 Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
- Dec 24 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma, catches fire, 36 die
- Dec 27 Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu
- Dec 27 The US signs a treaty with the Dominican Republic, which supersedes that of 1907: in July, the Us had withdrawn its Marines and ended its occupation
Historic Event
Dec 30 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Birthdays in History
- Dec 2 Alexander Haig Jr, American General and 59th Secretary of State (1981-82), born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Dec 3 John Backus, American computer scientist and inventor (FORTRAN computer language), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
- Dec 3 F. Sionil José, Filipino novelist (Rosales Saga) and Philippine National Artist for Literature, born in Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippine Islands
- Dec 4 John C. Portman Jr., American architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964), born in Walhalla, South Carolina (d. 2017)
- Dec 6 Sergey Yablonsky, Soviet and Russian mathematician and one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics (d. 1998), born in Moscow, Russia
Mário Soares
Dec 7 Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2017)
Ed Koch
Dec 12 Ed Koch, American congressman and New York City Mayor (1977-89), born in NYC, New York (d. 2013)
- Dec 19 Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
- Dec 19 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
- Dec 19 Michel Tournier, French writer (Friday, or, The Other Island), born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Dec 21 Johan W "Jo" van Marle, KNVB-chairman (1980-93), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1995)
- Dec 24 Willem Drees, Dutch statesman (Prime Minister 1948–1958), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1988)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Dec 25 Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998-2004), born in Gwalior, India (d. 2018)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Dec 11 Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (60) marries artist Georgia O'Keeffe (37) in Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Deaths in History
- Dec 2 Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
Samuel Gompers
Dec 13 Samuel Gompers, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
- Dec 15 T. Frank Appleby, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives - (R) New Jersey, 1921-23), dies at 60
- Dec 27 William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
- Dec 28 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene and costume designer, dis at 58
- Dec 29 Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)