Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07

1872  On December - 07 johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)   

1873  On this day in history willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)   

1875  On this day in history natives Sons of the West organized   

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

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

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

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

1879  On this day in history rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)   

1881  On this day in history 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  On December - 07 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes   

1887  On December - 07 ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)   

1888  Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist on December - 07.   

1889  On this day in history gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London   

1889  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer on December - 07.   

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

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

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

1892  On this day in history nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)   

1894  Stuart Davis, US painter on this day in history.   

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

1895  Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1900  On December - 07 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 December - 07.   

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

1902  On this day in history thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies   

1905  On this day in history gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)   

1906  George Richard James, saxophonist on this day in history.   

1907  On December - 07 eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring   

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

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  Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986) was born on this day in history.   

1302  Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of girolamo Trombeti, composer   

1561  Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625) was born on December - 07.   

1598  On this day in history birth of giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)   

0043  Death of Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC) on December - 07.   

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  On December - 07 innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies   

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