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Saturday, 21 February 2026
Dec 01 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb 
Dec 01 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
Dec 01 Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944).
Dec 02 Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich).
Dec 02 Han Yong-woon, are discovered Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea.
Dec 03 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic
Dec 03 Prv. Henry James Nicholas, 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Polderhoek, Belgium
Dec 05 Simone Gallimard, publisher.
Dec 06 At 9 05 A.M., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating man-made explosion in the pre-nuclear age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes twenty minutes after colliding with another vessel
Dec 06 At 9:05 A.M., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating man-made explosion in the pre-nuclear age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes twenty minutes after colliding with another vessel.
Dec 06 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
Dec 07 Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
Dec 07 US is recorded as becoming 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
Dec 08 Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ)
Dec 09 British forces capture Jerusalem
Dec 09 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem.
Dec 11 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
Dec 11 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot.
Dec 11 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
Dec 12 Edward Firth Henderson, arabist.
Dec 12 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
Dec 12 Rev Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha NB
Dec 13 Dave Street, LA Calif, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
Dec 14 Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
Dec 14 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany.
Dec 15 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
Dec 16 Arthur C[harles] Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End).
Dec 17 Louis Salvador Palange, composer.
Dec 18 Ossie Davis, Cogdell GA, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam).
Dec 18 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent.
Dec 19 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto).
Dec 19 Graham Sharp, ice skater.
Dec 20 Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
Dec 20 Second conscription referendum in Australia and among forces overseas Proposal to introduce conscription defeated TOP
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