377 Historic Events for December 4
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
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| 1875 |
Birth |
R M Rilke, writer
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| 1875 |
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William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)
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| 1876 |
Birth |
Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
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| 1879 |
Birth |
Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
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| 1884 |
Death |
Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Isabel Randolph, IL, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], US actor (War Horse)
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| 1889 |
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Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
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| 1890 |
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Willem III, Dutch king, buried
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75)
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS]
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
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| 1899 |
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56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
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| 1899 |
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Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer
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| 1901 |
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Anne Russell's "Girl and the judge," premieres in NYC
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Emilio M‚dici, president Brazil (1969-74)
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| 1905 |
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British government of Balfour resigns
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