Historical Events In December - 07

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

1873  On December - 07 willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)   

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

1876  NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked on December - 07.   

1876  On December - 07 ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)   

1877  On this day in history thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone   

1878  Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair) on December - 07.   

1879  Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite) on December - 07.   

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 this day in history.   

1885  On December - 07 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes   

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

1888  On December - 07 hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist   

1889  Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London on this day in history.   

1889  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer on this day in history.   

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

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 December - 07.   

1892  Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow) on December - 07.   

1894  On December - 07 stuart Davis, US painter   

1894  On this day in history ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89   

1895  On this day in history battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies   

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

1896  Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer on this day in history.   

1899  Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82 on December - 07.   

1900  Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission on this day in history.   

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

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

1902  On December - 07 thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies   

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

1906  On this day in history george Richard James, saxophonist   

1907  Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring on this day in history.   

1908  On December - 07 jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist   

1909  On this day in history leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents first thermosetting plastic   

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0521  On December - 07 birth of saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)   

0903  On December - 07 birth of abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)   

1302  On December - 07 birth of azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)   

1542  Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587) was born on this day in history.   

1545  Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567) was born on this day in history.   

1557  On December - 07 birth of girolamo Trombeti, composer   

1561  On this day in history birth of kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)   

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 this day in history.   

0983  On this day in history otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28   

1254  Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies on December - 07.   

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

1295  Death of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243) on this day in history.   

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

1498  On this day in history death of alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist