413 Historic Events for December 12
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| 1912 |
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R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC
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| 1913 |
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"Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Stanley Bate, composer
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
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| 1913 |
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Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park)
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Denis Begbie, cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50)
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| 1914 |
Death |
Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
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| 1915 |
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1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
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| 1915 |
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Aristide Briand forms French war govt
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| 1915 |
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Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, vocalist/actor (old blue eyes)
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| 1916 |
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Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Heinrich B”ll, Germ, writer (Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72) [OS]
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Edward Firth Henderson, arabist
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| 1917 |
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Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
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| 1917 |
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French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Cura‡ao writer (Nanzi)
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Joe Williams, Cordele Ga, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues)
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| 1920 |
Event |
Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
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| 1920 |
Death |
Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
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| 1920 |
Death |
Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
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| 1921 |
Death |
Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
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| 1922 |
Birth |
Arthur R Hawkins, US pilot/capt (WW II, downed 14 jap planes)
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
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