Historical Events In December - 07

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

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  Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair) on this day in history.  

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

1881  Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1882  On December - 07 warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26)  

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

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

1888  Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist on this day in history.  

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

1889  On this day in history heathcote Dicken Statham, composer  

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

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

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  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  On this day in history juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer  

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

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 December - 07 j G Navle, cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)  

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

1905  Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune) on this day in history.  

1906  On December - 07 george Richard James, saxophonist  

1907  Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring on December - 07.  

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  Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597) was born on December - 07.  

0903  Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986) was born on December - 07.  

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  On this day in history birth of henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)  

1557  Girolamo Trombeti, composer was born on December - 07.  

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

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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of king Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)  

1295  Death of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243) on December - 07.  

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

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