Historical Events In December - 07

1872  Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens) on December - 07.   

1873  Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia) on December - 07.   

1875  Natives Sons of the West organized on December - 07.   

1876  NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked on this day in history.   

1876  Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv) on this day in history.   

1877  Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone on December - 07.   

1878  On December - 07 akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)   

1879  On December - 07 rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)   

1881  On December - 07 julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51   

1882  Warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26) on December - 07.   

1885  49th Congress (1885-87) convenes on this day in history.   

1887  Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre) on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist   

1889  Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London on December - 07.   

1889  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer on December - 07.   

1891  On December - 07 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds first session   

1891  52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session on December - 07.   

1891  Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) on this day in history.   

1892  Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow) on this day in history.   

1894  Stuart Davis, US painter on December - 07.   

1894  Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1895  On December - 07 battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies   

1895  On December - 07 jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)   

1896  On this day in history juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer   

1899  On this day in history antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82   

1900  Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission on December - 07.   

1901  On this day in history a F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))   

1902  On this day in history j G Navle, cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)   

1902  Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies on this day in history.   

1905  Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune) on December - 07.   

1906  George Richard James, saxophonist on December - 07.   

1907  On this day in history eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring   

1908  Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist on December - 07.   

1909  Leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents first thermosetting plastic on December - 07.   

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0521  On this day in history birth of saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)   

0903  On this day in history birth of abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)   

1302  Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339) was born on December - 07.   

1542  On December - 07 birth of mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587)   

1545  Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567) was born on December - 07.   

1557  On December - 07 birth of girolamo Trombeti, composer   

1561  Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

1598  On December - 07 birth of giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)   

0043  On December - 07 death of cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)   

0283  Death of Pope Eutychian on December - 07.   

0983  Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28 on December - 07.   

1254  On this day in history innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies   

1279  On December - 07 death of king Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)   

1295  On this day in history death of gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)   

1383  On December - 07 wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies   

1498  Death of Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist on this day in history.