30th » Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate Rail transport or railroad building in the Southwestern United States named Southwest.
31st » A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London called London, England.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1853
6th » Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
14th » Errico Malatesta, Italian activist (d. 1932)
17th » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
19th » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th List of lieutenant governors of Quebec known as Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
22nd » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1917)
22nd » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919)
22nd » Sarada Devi, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1920)
26th » René Bazin, French author and academic (d. 1932)
30th » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)