Physics Nobel to Van der Waals
Dec 10 Dutch Physicist Johannes van der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics
- Dec 19 1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas in Baltimore
- Dec 19 Rayon 1st commercially produced in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
- Dec 21 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
- Dec 22 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
- Dec 24 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain, San Francisco
- Dec 28 Englebert Humperdink's opera "Konigskinder" premiers at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
- Dec 31 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910