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December 10 is now Constitution Day in Thailand, a national holiday. [20] The Greek stock exchange opened for the first time since the height of the country's economic crisis in November 1931. [21] The film Madame Butterfly starring Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney was released. [22] The Emu War ends; Died: Eugen Bamberger, 75, German chemist
The action coincided with a new British coal mining act taking effect which provided for a flat seven-and-a-half-hour working day unless the owners and the miner's federation agreed to a spreadover of 94 hours per fortnight. [2] Born: Joachim Hoffmann, German historian, in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia (d. 2002)
The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973. A group of Christchurch businessmen [ 1 ] founded the company in 1873, similar groups formed in the other main centres, to counter the dominance of the Shaw Savill line ...
A reenactment of the 1838 vow in the 1938 film, They Built a Nation The Day of the Vow (Afrikaans: Geloftedag) is a religious public holiday in South Africa.It is an important day for Afrikaners, originating from the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838, before which about 400 Voortrekkers made a promise to God that if he rescued them out of the hands of the approximately 20,000 Zulu ...
Port of Eilat seen from the sea. The Port of Eilat was declared in 1952, and constructed between 1952 and 1956. [1] It was opened for cargo traffic in 1957 and it was designed to serve as the southern gateway to Israel for shipments from East Africa, Asia and the Far East, as it allows Israeli shipping to reach the Indian Ocean without having to sail through the Suez Canal. [2]
During the Empire of Japan and up to 1945, Japan was dependent on imported foods and raw materials for industry. At the time, Japan had one of the largest merchant fleets in the world with a total of approximately 6 million tonnes of displacement before December 1941. [1]
William Henry Aspinwall (December 16, 1807 – January 18, 1875) [1] was a prominent American businessman who was a partner in the merchant firm of Howland & Aspinwall and was a co-founder of both the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Panama Canal Railway companies which revolutionized the migration of goods and people to the Western coast of the United States.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel was built by George D. Smith on the site of the old Mark Hopkins mansion, which had burned down following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.The hotel was dedicated in 1926, and the penthouse suite was rented exclusively to Daniel C. Jackling, reputedly at US$1,250 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2023) per month, [1] until he moved to his house in Woodside in 1936. [2]