December 1900 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1900 South African President Paul Kruger visits Flanders.
• 02 Dec 1900 South African President Paul Kruger arrives in Germany.
• 07 Dec 1900 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
• 09 Dec 1900 Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession.
• 12 Dec 1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is composed.
• 13 Dec 1900 Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey / Smuts beat Britten
• 14 Dec 1900 Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
• 16 Dec 1900 Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony.
• 17 Dec 1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million.
• 18 Dec 1900 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
• 19 Dec 1900 Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
• 20 Dec 1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be first comet visited by spacecraft).
• 25 Dec 1900 Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany.
• 29 Dec 1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia.

Famous Birthday

• Marie Bell

  French actress on screen from 1924 to 1973.

• Marc Allégret

  French director and screenwriter (d. 1973).

• Agnes Moorehead

  American actress best known for her work in the 1960s American TV comedy series "Bewitched" in which she played the mother She established...

• Lois Haines Sargent
• Hellé Nice
• Henri Pistre
• Jean Wall
• Jean Lacroix
• Rudolf Diels

  German first chief of the Gestapo, founded as a secret police force in June, 1933, appointed by his patron Goering.

• Katina Paxinou

  Actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72.

• Lester Matthews in Nottingham

  England; actor (Sir Dennis-Adventures of Fu Manchu).

• V S Pritchett

  English author and critic (d. 1997).

• Marc Allegret

  French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973).

• Joseph Needham

  British academic and sinologist (Born 1900).

• Willie Humphrey

  jazz Clarinetist.

• Francesco Messina

  sculptor.

• Lucijan Marija Skerjanc

  Yugoslavia -- Composer / conductor.

• Wischnewski writer
• Darcelys

  French singer and actor.

• Gabby Harnett

  (National League Most Valuable Player 1935).

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Famous Deaths

• William G Armstrong

  Of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90.

• William George Armstrong

  English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (Born 1810).

• Henry Russell composer

  dies at age 87.

• Jean B A Kessler director of oil on Dutch Indies

  dies at age 46.

• Roger Wolcott

  American politician (Born 1847).

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Top #3 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough - I Love You Just the Same
2. Dan Quinn - When Reuben Comes to Town
3. Albert Campbell - Ma Blushin' Rosie