466 Historic Events for December 31
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony)
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| 1906 |
Event |
French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Erna Bogen, Hungary, foils (Olympic-bronze-1932)
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| 1907 |
Death |
Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63
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| 1907 |
Event |
For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
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| 1907 |
Event |
G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center)
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| 1908 |
Birth |
Marko Rothmuller, composer
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Roy Rowland, film director
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| 1910 |
Event |
US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Dick Kollmar, Rigewood NJ, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What)
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| 1911 |
Event |
Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
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| 1914 |
Event |
Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000
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| 1916 |
Death |
Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Suzy Delair, Paris France, actress (Utopia, White Paws)
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| 1917 |
Event |
Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
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| 1918 |
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Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
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| 1920 |
Event |
Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
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| 1920 |
Death |
Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43
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| 1921 |
Event |
Last San Francisco firehorses retired
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| 1921 |
Birth |
Rocky Graziano, NYC, boxer (MW champ)/actor (Miami Undercover)[or 6/7]
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| 1921 |
Death |
J¢zsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (A h‚t), dies at 78
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| 1922 |
Birth |
Joan McCracken, Phila Pa, actress (Claudie Story of a Marriage)
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| 1922 |
Birth |
Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
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