Month December 1911 Calendar

About Month of December Calendar

• December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
  
  December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).

Historical Events for December, 1911

• Day of Week 9th » A Cross Mountain Mine disaster e.g mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
• Day of Week 10th » The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay, New York.
• Day of Week 12th » Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
• 12th » King George V of the United Kingdom named George V and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor of India e.g Emperor and Empress of India.
• Day of Week 24th » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• Day of Week 27th » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
• Day of Week 29th » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing Dynasty, enthroning The Bogd Khan known as 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as List of Mongol Khans e.g Khagan of Mongolia.
• 29th » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China (1912–1949) or Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1911

• 1st » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
• 1st » Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
• 3rd » Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic (d. 1979)
• 5th » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
• 8th » Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (d. 1992)
• 9th » Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 9th » Broderick Crawford, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
• 9th » Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007)
• 10th » Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
• 11th » Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)
• 11th » Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 11th » Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist and academic (d. 2009)
• 12th » Boun Oum, Laotian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1980)
• 13th » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 13th » Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
• 14th » Spike Jones, American singer, actor, and bandleader (d. 1965)
• 14th » Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1998)
• 15th » Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and illustrator (d. 1991)
• 15th » Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer (d. 1979)
• 18th » Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 20th » Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)
• 21st » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
• 23rd » James Gregory (actor) known as James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
• 23rd » Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 23rd » Marie Orav, Estonian chess player (d. 1994)
• 25th » Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (d. 2010)
• 26th » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (d. 1962)
• 27th » Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 29th » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d. 1988)
• 30th » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
• 31st » Dal Stivens, Australian author (d. 1997)

Famous Deaths for December 1911

• 10th » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)

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