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Historical Events in December 1910

  • Dec 3 Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
  • Dec 9 French troops occupy the Moroccan harbor city of Agadir

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