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The legend of Stagger Lee is born
Spanish king ratifies democratic constitution
HMS Beagle departs England
Apollo 8 returns to Earth
Radio City Music Hall opens
Anne de Mortimer claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
Jan Campanus Czech composer and humanist born in Vodany (d. 1622)
Giovanni Adb Viscardi Swiss architect baptized
Pieter de Swart Dutch architect (Royal Palace Hague)
Philippe de Noailles duc de Mouchy French soldier (d. 1794)
Pope Pius VI [Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi] Italian Pope (1775-1799) born in Cesena (d. 1799)
Franciscus French Hemsterhuis Frisian philosopher
William Marshall Scottish fiddle composer ( strathspeys The Marchioness of Huntly) born in Fochabers Scotland (d. 1833)
Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus composer
Antons Klemens Theodor king of Saksen (1827-36)
Michael A Barclay de Tolly ScotRuss minister of War
George Cayley England found science of aerodynamics
John Goss English organist and composer (Praise My Soul the King of Heaven) (d. 1880)
Guillaume L Baud Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49)
John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer Member of Dutch 2nd parliament (1848-75)
James Henry Carleton American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Lubec Maine (d. 1873)
Eliakim Parker Scammon American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Whitefield Maine (d. 1894)
Jane Wilde Irish poet nationalist and mother of Oscar Wilde born in Wexford (d. 1896)
John Roberts Welsh composer minister and poet born in Aberystwyth Wales (d. 1877)
James Clay Rice American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Worthington Massachusetts (d. 1864)
Lucius Fairchild American politician diplomat and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Kent Ohio (d. 1896)
Pavel Tretyakov Russian businessman and patron of art born in Moscow (d. 1897)
Henricus Oort Dutch theologist (Leidse translation)
Paul Ehrenreich German etnologistmythologist
Andr Gedalge French composer (le Petit Savoyard Phoeb) and Mayor of Chessy Seine-et-Marne born in Paris France (d. 1926)
Ren Georges Hermann-Paul French artist (d. 1940)
Max Ettinger Jewish-German composer (Jiddische Requiem) born in Lwow Poland (d. 1951)
Robert Greig Australian actor (Sullivans Travels Horse Feathers) born in Melbourne Victoria Australia (d. 1958)
Sydney Greenstreet British actor (Casablanca Maltese Falcon) born in Sandwich Kent England (d. 1954)
Tito Schipa tenorcomposer (La Rondine) born in Lecce Italy (d. 1965)
Thea von Harbou German author and actress (Metropolis) born in Tauperlitz Dhlau Bavaria Germany (d. 1954)
Alfred Edwin McKay Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917)
Sig Arno [Siegfried Aron] German-Jewish actor (Holiday in Havana My Friend Irma) born in Hamburg Germany (d. 1975)
Dec 27 1437 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia
Dec 27 1512 Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World
Dec 27 1657 Flushing Remonstrance petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland protesting ban on Quaker worship