Johnson and the Federal League
Dec 4 Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League; Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
- Dec 5 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win first Championship; beat U of Toronto Blues, 14-2
- Dec 5 The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- Dec 6 German troops over run Lodz
- Dec 8 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron
- Dec 8 Boers rebelling against the British in South Africa suffer several defeats, with one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidentally drowning
Watch Your Step
Dec 8 Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC
- Dec 10 French government returns to Paris
- Dec 11 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed
- Dec 12 The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%
- Dec 14 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
Dec 14 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, to regulate and tax production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products
- Dec 15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
- Dec 15 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
- Dec 15 Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
French Artois Offensive
Dec 16 French offensive in Artois, Northern France led by Philippe Pétain
- Dec 16 German warships fire more than 500 shells on northern English towns of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool - 1st time English civilians targeted during the war - kill 137 people [1]
- Dec 16 World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
- Dec 17 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
- Dec 17 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
- Dec 17 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
"Tillie's Punctured Romance"
Dec 21 1st feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
- Dec 21 2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances
- Dec 23 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt
- Dec 24 German plane drops bombs on Dover, England
- Dec 25 Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting, soldiers exchange gifts and play football
- Dec 26 US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, on the same day Germans announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; weakens America's protest
- Dec 28 Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
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