Month December 1903 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, 1903

• Day of Week 14th » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the 'Wright Flyer' at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• Day of Week 17th » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the 'Wright Flyer' at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• Day of Week 30th » Iroquois Theatre fire named A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago called Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1903

• 4th » Anna van der Vegt, Dutch gymnast (d. 1983)
• 4th » Cornell Woolrich, American author (d. 1968)
• 5th » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer (d. 2011)
• 5th » C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
• 6th » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
• 7th » Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic (d. 1987)
• 10th » Una Merkel, American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 12th » Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1976)
• 12th » Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1963)
• 13th » Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986)
• 13th » Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
• 16th » Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975)
• 17th » Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
• 17th » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1978)
• 19th » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 21st » Maria Balcerkiewiczówna, Polish-English actress (d. 1975)
• 22nd » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
• 24th » Ernst Krenkel, Polish-Russian geographer and explorer (d. 1971)
• 24th » Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (d. 1981)
• 25th » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981)
• 26th » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1995)
• 28th » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1983)
• 28th » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1957)

Famous Deaths for December 1903

• 8th » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)

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