Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07

1872  On this day in history johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)   

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 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 this day in history akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)   

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

1881  Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 on December - 07.   

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

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

1887  Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre) on December - 07.   

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  52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds first session on this day in history.   

1891  On this day in history 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session   

1891  Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) on December - 07.   

1892  On December - 07 nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)   

1894  Stuart Davis, US painter on December - 07.   

1894  Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 on December - 07.   

1895  Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies on December - 07.   

1895  Jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana) on December - 07.   

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

1899  Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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

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

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  On this day in history gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)   

1906  On December - 07 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  Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597) was born on this day in history.   

0903  On December - 07 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  Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587) was born on December - 07.   

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  On December - 07 birth of kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)   

1598  Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy) was born on this day in history.   

0043  Death of Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC) on this day in history.   

0283  On December - 07 death of pope Eutychian   

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

1254  Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies on this day in history.   

1279  Death of King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226) on December - 07.   

1295  On December - 07 death of gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)   

1383  On this day in history wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies   

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