Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07

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

1873  On December - 07 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  Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1881  On December - 07 julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51   

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

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

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

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

1889  On December - 07 gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London   

1889  On this day in history heathcote Dicken Statham, composer   

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  On December - 07 fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)   

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  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 this day in history.   

1896  On December - 07 juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer   

1899  On this day in history 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 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 December - 07.   

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

1905  On December - 07 gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)   

1906  On December - 07 george Richard James, saxophonist   

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  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 this day in history.   

1557  On December - 07 birth of girolamo Trombeti, composer   

1561  On December - 07 birth of kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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  Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies on December - 07.   

1498  On December - 07 death of alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist