Page 4: Historical Events In December - 19

1894  Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113   

1894  Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65).   

1895  Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)   

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian   

1897  Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator   

1901  Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist   

1902  Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor is born.   

1902  Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)   

1903  Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan.   

1903  Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms).   

1904  In this year, The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905.   

1904  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   

1905  Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer.   

1906  Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born.   

1906  Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union is born   

1906  H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)   

1907  239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA   

1907  Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine results in the deaths of 239   

1907  239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania   

1910  Rayon inaugural commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA   

1910  1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt)   

1910  Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)   

1913  Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title   

1913  William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart).   

1914  Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87   

1915  Edith Piaf, French singer is born.   

1915  Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow).   

1915  Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51.   

1916  Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo   

1916  Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)   

1917  1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)   

1917  Graham Sharp, ice skater   

1918  Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not feature in The New York Globe. (If you like the weird and unusual, check out the bizarre web sites featured on our Strange But True page.)   

1918  Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe).   

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1036  Su tung-p'o: China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher   

1498  Andreas osiander: Germany, protestant reformation theologist   

1554  Philip william: Prince of orange   

1676  Louis-nicholas clerambault: Paris france, composer/organist   

1683  Philip v: Versailles france, king of spain (1700-24, 24-46)   

1699  William bowyer: English printer   

1714  John winthrop: American astronomer   

1723  Susanne k von klettenberg: German friend of goethes mother   

0401  Death of Anastasius i: Bishop of rome (399-401),   

1075  Edith of wessex: Wife of edward the confessor of england   

1327  Death of Agnes of france: Duchess of burgundy   

1370  Urban v: [guillaume de grimoard], 1st avignon pope (1362-70),   

1614  Melchior bischoff: Composer,   

1737  Death of James sobieski: Crown prince of poland (b. 1667)   

1741  Death of Vitus j bering: Dutch navigator/explorer,   

1749  Francesco antonio bonporti: Composer,