- Dec 1 AA Milne's comedy play "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
Nancy Astor
Dec 1 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- Dec 10 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
Wilson Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
Ban Johnson Controversy
Dec 10 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
- Dec 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama
- Dec 13 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
- Dec 15 Edna St Vincent Millay's play "Aria da Capo" premieres in NYC
- Dec 15 Fiume (Rijeka, modern Croatia) declares its Independence
- Dec 17 Austrian parliament approves 8-hour working day
- Dec 19 American Meteorological Society found
- Dec 20 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
- Dec 20 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
US Deports Radical Aliens
Dec 21 J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia
- Dec 23 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
- Dec 23 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
- Dec 27 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
- Dec 30 Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
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