Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
1873 Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia) 

1875 Natives Sons of the West organized. 

1876 NY Mutuals and Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked 

1876 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv) 

1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone 

1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair). 

1879 Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite). 

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

1882 Warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW and Aussie opening bat 1909-26) 

1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes 

1887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre). 

1888 Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist 

1889 Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London. 

1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer 

1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds inaugural session. 

1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session 

1891 Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) 

1892 Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow). 

1894 Stuart Davis, US painter 

1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89. 

1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies. 

1895 Jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana). 

1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer. 

1899 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 

1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944)) 

1902 J G Navle, cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper) 

1902 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies. 

1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune) 

1906 George Richard James, saxophonist. 

1907 Eugene Corri is recorded as becoming 1st referee in a boxing ring. 

1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist 

1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents inaugural thermosetting plastic. 

1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) 

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