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Sunday, 28 June 2026
Dec 09 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage. 
Dec 09 The Norwegian government refuses a proposal to give women the vote
Dec 10 George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro).
Dec 10 Marie Curie is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman to receive a Nobel prize
Dec 10 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie.
Dec 11 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet
Dec 11 Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
Dec 12 Enid Balint-Edmonds, psychoanalyst.
Dec 12 Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
Dec 13 Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
Dec 13 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
Dec 13 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ).
Dec 14 Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut.
Dec 14 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair.
Dec 16 Hardie Albright, Pittsburgh, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter)
Dec 16 Majestic Theater, New York NY, is recorded as becoming inaugural in US to employ women ushers
Dec 16 Majestic Theater, NYC, is recorded as becoming 1st in US to employ women ushers
Dec 17 At 10 35 AM, inaugural sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright).
Dec 17 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright).
Dec 17 Erskine Caldwell, American novelist is born.
Dec 17 Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
Dec 18 Panama Canal Zone acquired 'in perpetuity', by the USA for an annual rent
Dec 19 Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms).
Dec 19 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Dec 20 Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
Dec 23 Fredi [Fredericka] Carolyn Washington, actress (Black and Tan).
Dec 25 Antiochos Evanghelatos, composer
Dec 27 "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung.
Dec 27 "Sweet Adeline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is inaugural sung
Dec 27 The barbershop quartet favorite, Sweet Adeline, was sung for the inaugural time -- in New York City
Dec 28 Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC.
Dec 28 George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46
Dec 28 John von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
Dec 29 Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter/bandleader
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