Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07

1872  Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)   

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   

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0521  Saint columba: Irish christian missionary to scotland   

0903  Abd al-rahman al sufi: Persian astronomer   

1302  Azzone visconti lord of milan: Azzone visconti lord of milan (d. 1339)   

1542  Mary stuart: Queen of scotland (1560-1587)   

1545  Henry stuart: Lord darnley, consort of mary i of scotland   

1557  Girolamo trombeti: Composer   

1561  Kikkawa hiroie: Japanese politician   

1598  Giovanni bernini: Italy, baroque sculptor (st teresa in ecstasy)   

0043  Cicero: Roman politician and author (b. 106 bc)   

0283  Death of Pope eutychian: Pope eutychian   

0983  Otto ii the red: German king/emperor (973-83),   

1254  Innocent iv: [sinibaldo dei fieschi], pope (1243-54),   

1279  Death of King boleslaus v of poland: King boleslaus v of poland (b. 1226)   

1295  Death of Gilbert de clare: 7th earl of hertford, english politician (b. 1243)   

1383  Death of Wenceslaus: Duke of brabant,   

1498  Death of Alexander hegius von heek: German humanist