Historical Events In December - 07
Saturday, 07 September 2024
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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