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12/12/1848
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William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1858
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1st Canadian coins circulated (1›, 5›, 10› and 20›)
Type: Event
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12/12/1859
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Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1859
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Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1862
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Battle of Dumfries, VA
Type: Event
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12/12/1862
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Daniel Hal‚vy, French historian/writer (La fin des notables)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1862
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Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
Type: Event
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12/12/1863
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Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1866
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Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1870
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Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
Type: Event
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12/12/1871
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Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
Type: Event
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12/12/1872
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Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
Type: Death
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12/12/1874
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Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1875
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Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
Type: Birth
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12/12/1875
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Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1877
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Jos‚ M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
Type: Death
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12/12/1878
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Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
Type: Event
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12/12/1879
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Percy Fletcher, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1879
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Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
Type: Birth
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12/12/1879
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Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1880
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Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
Type: Death
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12/12/1882
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Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1884
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1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
Type: Event
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12/12/1886
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Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (She Done Him Wrong)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1887
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Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1889
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Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77
Type: Death
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12/12/1889
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Vaclav Stepan, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1893
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Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1896
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Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson
Type: Birth
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12/12/1897
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Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
Type: Event
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12/12/1897
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Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
Type: Event
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12/12/1898
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1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania
Type: Event
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12/12/1899
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George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
Type: Event
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12/12/1899
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1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
Type: Event
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12/12/1900
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National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," composed
Type: Event
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12/12/1901
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Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
Type: Event
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12/12/1902
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Howard Koch, screenwriter
Type: Birth
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12/12/1903
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Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
Type: Event
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12/12/1903
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Enid Balint-Edmonds, psychoanalyst
Type: Birth
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12/12/1904
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Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland and S Africa)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1904
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CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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12/12/1906
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Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish govt member, appointed Sec of Commerce
Type: Event
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12/12/1906
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William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1907
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Roy Douglas, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1907
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Fred Elizalde, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1907
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F van Heek, Dutch sociologist
Type: Birth
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12/12/1909
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Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1911
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Anna Russell, composer
Type: Birth
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12/12/1912
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Yusef Bedri, educationist
Type: Birth
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12/12/1912
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Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
Type: Death
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