December 1915 calendar

Events

• 04 Dec 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
• 10 Dec 1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled.
• 12 Dec 1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia.
• 14 Dec 1915 Jack Johnson is first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
• 16 Dec 1915 Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity".
• 18 Dec 1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt.
• 20 Dec 1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia.
• 21 Dec 1915 25.83 cm (10.17 inches) of rainfall, Glenora Oregon (state record).
• 22 Dec 1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati Ohio.
• 23 Dec 1915 The HMHS ''Britannic'', the largest individual British loss in WWI, departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage.
• 25 Dec 1915 In WWI, British and German forces declare a Christmas truce, get out of the trenches and have a free-for-all kick-around football game in no-man's land.
• 26 Dec 1915 The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.
• 28 Dec 1915 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph.
• 30 Dec 1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scottish-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die.

Famous Birthday

• Frank Sinatra

  American legendary superstar of a singing career as well as TV and movies.

• Edith Piaf

  French singer (Born 1915).

• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

  German singer with the Berlin City Opera after her debut in 1938.

• Eli Wallach

  American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s.

• Curt Jurgens

  German actor of over 100 films, but considered his greatest achievements on stage.

• William H Masters
• Johannesburg (South Africa)
• André Rouxel
• Barbara Billingsly
• Robert Mitterrand
• Takahito Mikasa
• Ross MacDonald

  Detective Novelist (Goodbye Look).

• Jack Milroy
• Pete Rugolo

  Italian-American musician, noted for the innovative arrangements he wrote for Stan Kenton’s orchestras during 1945-49.

• Alexandre Minkowski

  French pediatrician, and arguably the French physician who most influenced neonatology in the 20th century.

• Monique Rolland
• B J Vorster

  Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983).

• Lord Dunpark
• James D Hodgson
• Vintila Horia
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Famous Deaths

• Jan Malat

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Gustav Hollaender composer

  dies at age 60.

• Gerrit Jan van Heek Dutch textile manufacturer/politician

  dies at age 78.

• Charles Beach Hawley composer

  dies at age 57.

• Upendrakishore Ray

  Indian writer, painter and composer (Born 1863).

• Roland Leighton

  English soldier and poet (d. 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - When I Leave the World Behind
2. McKee's Orchestra - A Perfect Day
3. Henry Burr - It's Tulip Time in Holland
4. Irving Kaufman - We'll Build a Little Home in the U.S.A.
5. Weber & Fields - Restaurant Scene