Historical Events
Hayes, Tilden Election
Dec 6 US Electoral College casts their votes in the disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden; two sets of conflicting results are returned to Congress the next day
- Dec 7 NY Mutuals & Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
- Dec 8 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
- Dec 23 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed, transferring more power to elected representatives
- Dec 29 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula, Ohio, 92 die
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 4 Dimitur Poljanov [Popov], Bulgarian poet (Iron Poems) (d. 1953)
- Dec 6 Fred Duesenberg, German-American automobile pioneer, born in Lippe, Germany (d. 1932)
- Dec 7 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv), born in Regensburg, Germany (d. 1957)
- Dec 9 Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor (I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1940)
- Dec 10 Anton Mauve (Jr), Dutch painter, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1962)
- Dec 11 Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor (Rebirth Symphony, Op. 7), born in Vishnyeva, Russian Empire (now Belarus) (d. 1909)
- Dec 12 Alvin Kraenzlein, American track and field athlete (4 Olympic gold 1900), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1928)
- Dec 15 Ferdinand Hardekopf, German writer and journalist, born in Varel, Germany (d. 1954)
- Dec 19 Carlo Gatti, Italian musicologist (Verdi), born in Florence, Italy (d. 1965)
- Dec 20 J. Van Oudshoorn [Jan Koos Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Senses), born in the Hague, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Dec 20 Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (director of Mount Wilson), born in Antioch, Turkey (d. 1956)
- Dec 22 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist (Futurism e Futurista), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1944)
- Dec 25 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
Dec 25 Founder of Pakistan who led the All-India Muslim League (1913-47) until he achieved his dream of Pakistan and became its 1st Governor-General (1947-48), born in Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Dec 29 Pablo Casals [Pau Casals i Defilló], Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, born in Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1973)
