3rd » The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated 1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team named an all-star collection of early football players 16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
10th » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898) or Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
18th » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of convert 39.245 mi/h km/h abbr=on in a Jeantaud electric car
26th » Marie Curie called Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1898
1st » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
2nd » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
5th » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet (d. 1982)
5th » Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (d. 1947)
6th » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
6th » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)