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- Nov 22 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
- Nov 22 Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls but is reformed the same day
- Nov 22 Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
- Nov 28 J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC
Sports History
Nov 29 Russian-French player Alexander Alekhine becomes the fourth world chess champion, defeating reigning champion Cuban José Raúl Capablanca in Buenos Aires
- Dec 2 1st Model A Ford sold, for only $385
Peking Man
Dec 2 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black announces to the Geological Society of China that ancient human fossils from Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he names 'Sinanthropus Pekinensis' (Peking Man), now known as Homo Erectus
Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony
Dec 4 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
Ellington at the Cotton Club
Dec 4 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem, NYC
- Dec 4 Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Paul Waner wins NL MVP
- Dec 10 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
- Dec 14 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
- Dec 15 William Edward Hickman kidnaps 12 year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles, whom he later kills
Bradman Ist Class Debut
Dec 16 Australian cricket's batting maestro Don Bradman makes his 1st-class debut for NSW v South Australia at the Adelaide Oval finishing Day 1 on 65 not out
- Dec 17 Australian cricketing prodigy Don Bradman scores 118 in his 1st-class debut for NSW against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval
- Dec 17 US submarine S-4 sinks after collision killing all 34 aboard
Victoria Score 793
Dec 17 Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
"Antigone"
Dec 28 Arthur Honegger's opera "Antigone" premieres with a libretto by Jean Cocteau, sets by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
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