Today in History for December 1904

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

6th - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
10th - King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
10th - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
12th - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC
19th - Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
24th - German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
27th - Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
27th - W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin
28th - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
31st - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 32 of 32

1st - W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
2nd - Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
3rd - Juan E Yrausquin, founder (Party of Patriot Arubans)/minister
6th - Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
7th - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
8th - Wilmer L Allison Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1935)
9th - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
9th - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
11th - Joe Coral, bookmaker
11th - Marge, American cartoonist (d 1993)
12th - Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland & South Africa)
15th - Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
15th - William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician
16th - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist
17th - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [OS]
17th - Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
18th - George Stevens, US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade)
18th - Wilf Carter, country singer
20th - Albert Van Dekker, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture)
20th - [Schmidt] Hans Burkhardt, artist
22nd - Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970)
24th - Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist
24th - Herbert D Riley, US vice-admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal, Okinawa)
24th - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.
25th - Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
26th - Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo)
28th - Clabon W Allen, Australian/British astronomer
28th - Sergei Yutkevich, St Petersburg Russia, director (Otello, Banya)
30th - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [NS]
31st - Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
31st - Nathan Milstein, Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942)
31st - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 3 of 3

10th - James Cranston, cricketer (scored 16 & 15 in Test for England), dies
24th - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55
25th - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61

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