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The ADVANCE, December 27, 2023/Page 8A (Tl?e Ahumtce
100 Years Ago This Month:
Historical events from December 1923
The month of Decem
ber has been home to many
historical events over the
years. Here's a look at some
that helped to shape the
world in December 1923.
• The Gleno Dam
bursts in the Province of
Bergamo in the Lombardy
region of Italy on December
1. More than 350 people are
swept away and killed in the
villages of Bueggio, Coma
and Dezzo.
• Universal Pictures
releases the film "The Dar
ling of New York" on De
cember 3. The film is the
first to feature five-year-old
Peggy-Jean Montgomery
also known as "Baby Peggy"
who would soon be earning
an annual salary of $1.5 mil
lion.
• Charles Keating is
born on December 4 in
Cincinnati, Ohio. Keating
would ultimately become
one of the more infamous
figures in American finance
when he plays a prominent
role in the savings and loan
crisis of 1989.
• Kentucky Governor
Edwin P. Murrow com
mutes the death sentence of
convicted murderer Steve
McQueen on December 5.
McQueen was a juvenile at
the time of the crime and
Governor Murrow had re
ceived numerous requests
to commute the sentence,
which he did just days be
fore his term as governor
was due to end.
• On December 6, Win
ston Churchill is defeated
in his attempt to be elected
representative of Leicester
West in a general election.
• The Reichstag of the
Weimar Republic votes to
pass an enabling act on De
cember 8. The act, which
garners 313 votes to just 18
dissents, gives Chancellor
Wilhelm Marx the power
to implement emergency
economic and welfare mea
sures. The act lasted until
the dissolution of the Reich
stag in March 1924.
• The National Dairy
Products Corporation,
which would ultimately be
come a conglomerate now
known as Kraft Heinz, is
founded on December 10.
• A 5.3 magnitude
earthquake strikes near the
Colombia-Ecuador border
on December 14. More
than 300 people are killed
and the Colombian village
of Cumbal is destroyed.
• The Liberal Party of
Greek Prime Minister Styli-
anos Gonatas wins control
of the parliament on De
cember 16. Gonatas 1 party
ran on a platform of abolish
ing the monarchy.
• James D. Cummings
and J. Earl McLeod of
Washington, Kansas, file a
patent application for their
invention, the bulldozer, on
December 18. The patent is
granted on January 6,1925.
• On December 18,
American congressman
Andrew Volstead tells a law
enforcement conference in
Minnesota that the Ameri
can people were giving up
their opposition to the Vol
stead Act, which established
the prohibition of alcoholic
beverages. In his remarks,
Volstead predicts the act will
never be repealed.
• King George II of
Greece and Queen Consort
Elisabeth leave the coun
try on December 19. Their
departure is in compliance
with the Greek government,
which abolishes the monar
chy three months later.
• Nine farms in Good-
hue County, Minnesota, re
ceive electricity for the first
time on December 24. The
delivery of electricity is part
of a project to demonstrate
the economic feasibility of
rural electrification in the
United States.
• On December 24 in
Washington, D.C., United
States President Calvin
Coolidge presses a button
and turns on 2,500 electric
bulbs, thus beginning the
tradition of the National
Christmas Tree.
• Prince Regent Hiro-
hito of Japan survives an as
sassination attempt on De
cember 27. The perpetrator,
24-year-old student Daisuke
Namba, is the son of parlia
ment member Sakunoshin
Nanda. Namba is hanged on
November 15,1924.
• The first patent ap
plication for Russian-born
American inventor Vladimir
Zworkin's "Television Sys
tem" is filed on December
29. The patent is eventually
granted on December 20,
1938.
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