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Thursday, 05 February 2026
Dec 15 After being closed for over four months, the NYSE got back into the swing of things on this day in 1914, albeit with a tight set of trading restrictions designed to prevent fiscal disaster 
Dec 15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow.
Dec 15 Ernie Toshack, cricket pace bowler (Aussie left-arm post-WWII)
Dec 16 French offensive in Artois (Pétain)
Dec 16 Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82.
Dec 17 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
Dec 17 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
Dec 17 Mushtaq Ali, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 30's and 40's)
Dec 18 Jerry Zipkin, socialite
Dec 19 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87.
Dec 21 "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts.
Dec 21 A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies.
Dec 21 inaugural feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin).
Dec 23 Dezider Kardos, composer
Dec 23 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt
Dec 24 Dorothy Hyson, actress (Ghoul, Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go)
Dec 24 German plane drops bombs on Dover England.
Dec 25 Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the German troops along the Eastern and Western fronts cease firing their guns and artillery, and start singing Christmas carols and playing brass musical instruments; at inaugural light, many German soldiers emerge from their trenches and cross No Man's Land, calling out Merry Christmas in English and French; at inaugural the Allied soldiers suspect a trick, but soon they are shaking hands with the Boche; swapping cigarettes and plum pudding, and even playing soccer; the Christmas Truce lasts a few days, then it is back to the bloody conflict of World War I; there are no more Christmas Truces
Dec 25 Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans).
Dec 25 SS Therese Heymann. This Ropner ship left the Tyne and was posted missing thereafter. No information about her fate is known but she may have been mined off Filey, Yorkshire as was the fate of many other vessels.
Dec 26 Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)
Dec 27 Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red).
Dec 28 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
Dec 30 Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America).
Dec 31 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460000.
Dec 31 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
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