Historical Events in December 1875

Dec 1 Henry John Heinz's first company, the Heinz Noble & Company, goes bankrupt in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873

Dec 4 Influential New York politician William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed" of Tammany Hall escapes from jail where he was being held for embezzlement (flees to Spain but later recaptured)

Dec 8 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg