Air Conditioning
Dec 3 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae", on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - makes air conditioning possible
- Dec 7 Leslie J Stuart's musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC
- Dec 7 National Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria
Maeterlinck Nobel for Literature
Dec 10 Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Dec 10 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days
- Dec 10 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- Dec 12 Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
Amundsen 1st to the South Pole
Dec 14 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's Antarctic expedition is the 1st to reach the South Pole
I Gioielli Della Madonna
Dec 23 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera "I Gioielli Della Madonna" premieres at the Kurfürstenoper in Berlin, Germany, sung in German as "Der Schmuck der Madonna"
Oaha, die Satire der Satire
Dec 23 Frank Wedekind's play "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich
- Dec 25 Edward Knoblock's "Kismet" premieres in NYC
Sun Yat-sen Elected
Dec 29 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen is elected the 1st President of the Republic of China
- Dec 29 Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty
- Dec 29 Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
- Dec 29 San Francisco Symphony forms
- Dec 30 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG
Marie Curie's Second Nobel Prize
Dec 31 Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity
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