Historical Events
- Dec 18 John William Draper takes 1st portrait photograph of a female face made in US
Famous Birthdays
George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
Dec 5 United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, born in New Rumley, Ohio
- Dec 7 Redvers Buller, English general and recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Crediton, Devon (d. 1908)
