319 Historic Events for December 27
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| 1856 |
Birth |
Andre Gedalge, composer
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| 1858 |
Death |
Alexandre Pierre Fran‡ois Boely, composer, dies at 73
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| 1859 |
Birth |
William Henry Hadow, composer
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| 1862 |
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Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
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| 1862 |
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Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
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| 1867 |
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Ontario and Qu‚bec legislatures hold 1st meeting
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| 1869 |
Birth |
Aur‚lien FM Lugn‚-Poe, French actor/stage manager (La Parade)
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| 1871 |
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World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
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| 1877 |
Death |
Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Robert Greig, Australia, actor (Horse Feathers)
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| 1880 |
Death |
Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75
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| 1884 |
Birth |
Bernard van Dieren, composer
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| 1884 |
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Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State
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| 1887 |
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
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| 1890 |
Birth |
Maurice Schoemaker, composer
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer
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| 1892 |
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N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
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| 1892 |
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Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor (Holiday in Havana)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw
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