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Date
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Event
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| December, 1 |
1982 Martial artist Jackie Chan (28) weds actress Lin Feng-jiao (29) in Los Angeles |
| December, 2 |
1883 Johannes Brahms' "3rd Symphony in F" premieres with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra |
| December, 3 |
1984 Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin |
| December, 4 |
1952 Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo marries first wife lodie Constantin (divorced 1968) |
| December, 5 |
2001 "Ocean's Eleven" directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts premieres in Westwood, California |
| December, 6 |
1930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia |
| December, 7 |
1979 "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" first movie of the series premieres directed by Robert Wise, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy |
| December, 8 |
1953 Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker (58) weds second wife Olive Palmer (51) at Park Road Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada |
| December, 9 |
1956 NBA player Bill Russell (22) weds college sweetheart Rose Swisher; divorce in 1973 |
| December, 10 |
1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer |
| December, 11 |
1967 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn - Academy Award for Best Actress 1968) |
| December, 12 |
1991 Actor Richard Gere (42) weds supermodel Cindy Crawford (25) in Las Vegas |
| December, 13 |
2003 Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti (68) weds Nicoletta Mantovani at Modena Italy's Teatro Comunale |
| December, 14 |
2019 Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women. |
| December, 15 |
1944 Country music star Hank Williams (21) weds Audrey Sheppard. It was her second marriage and his first. |
| December, 16 |
1950 American child actress Shirley Temple (22) weds 2nd husband US naval officer Charles Alden Black (31), at his parents' home, Del Monte, California |
| December, 17 |
1918 Philippine Senator (and later 2nd President) Manuel L. Quezon (40) weds first cousin Aurora Aragon (30) in Hong Kong |
| December, 18 |
1932 Civil rights activist Rosa McCauley (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama |
| December, 19 |
1912 Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel |
| December, 20 |
1949 "Gone With The Wind" actor Clark Gable (48) weds socialite Sylvia Ashley (45) |
| December, 21 |
1947 Actress Estelle Getty (24) weds Arthur Gettleman |
| December, 22 |
1936 Filmmaker Billy Wilder (30) weds first wife Judith Coppicus |
| December, 23 |
1951 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns, 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game |
| December, 24 |
1922 BBC broadcasts first British radio play "The Truth about Father Christmas" |
| December, 25 |
1949 British actor Cary Grant (45) weds actress Betsy Drake (26) |
| December, 26 |
1940 "The Philadelphia Story" film directed by George Cukor, based on the Broadway play of the same name, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, is released (Academy Awards Best Actor 1941) |
| December, 27 |
1953 Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (22) weds Joan Heise at St. Frances de Chantal Parish in Wantagh, New York |
| December, 28 |
1950 Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36) |
| December, 29 |
1957 American singing duo Steve Lawrence (22) and Eydie Gorm (29) wed at the home of casino owner Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas |
| December, 30 |
1857 Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville |
| December, 31 |
1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID |