Page 3: Historical Events In December - 24

1867  On December - 24 manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian/diplomat   

1868  On December - 24 emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)   

1869  On December - 24 henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)   

1869  On this day in history edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55   

1870  On December - 24 rosario Scalero, composer   

1871  On December - 24 giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening   

1871  On this day in history verdi's 'Aida' performed for the first time, in Cairo   

1871  Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy) on this day in history.   

1874  On December - 24 pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875   

1879  Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer on this day in history.   

1881  Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer on December - 24.   

1884  On December - 24 austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State   

1885  On December - 24 arthur Dolphin, cricketer (Yorkshire & England keeper, later Test ump)   

1885  On this day in history louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85   

1887  Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise) on this day in history.   

1888  On December - 24 the birth of Michael Curtiz, American director   

1889  Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented on this day in history.   

1889  On December - 24 daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake   

1889  Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake on December - 24.   

1889  Vladimir Sokoloff, Moscow Russia, actor (Road to Morocco) on December - 24.   

1893  Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor on this day in history.   

1893  Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Murder at the Vanities) on this day in history.   

1894  On this day in history scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm   

1894  On December - 24 georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot   

1898  Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

1898  Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1900  On December - 24 herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam   

1904  German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children on December - 24.   

1904  Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist on this day in history.   

1904  Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history howard Hughes born   

1905  The birth of Howard Hughes, American tycoon on this day in history.   

1905  Anna "Ans" van Dike ("the Young"), Jewish nazi collaborator on this day in history.   

1906  Reginald A Fessenden became first to broadcast music over radio (Mass) on this day in history.   

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0003  On December - 24 birth of galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)   

1167  John "without a land", king of England (1199-1216) was born on this day in history.   

1389  On this day in history birth of john VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)   

1475  Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537) was born on December - 24.   

1491  On this day in history birth of ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)   

1508  On this day in history birth of pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)   

1564  On this day in history birth of abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver   

1588  Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631) was born on December - 24.   

0427  Death of Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople on this day in history.   

1069  On this day in history godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies   

1257  Death of John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218) on this day in history.   

1380  On this day in history john von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies   

1453  John Dunstable, English composer, dies on this day in history.   

1524  On December - 24 vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55   

1541  On this day in history andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61   

1548  On this day in history maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies