Page 3: Historical Events In December - 07

1872  On this day in history johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)   

1873  On December - 07 willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)   

1875  Natives Sons of the West organized on December - 07.   

1876  On December - 07 nY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked   

1876  Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv) on December - 07.   

1877  Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone on this day in history.   

1878  Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair) on this day in history.   

1879  Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite) on this day in history.   

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

1882  Warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1889  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1891  Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) on December - 07.   

1892  On December - 07 nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)   

1894  On December - 07 stuart Davis, US painter   

1894  Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1895  On December - 07 battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies   

1895  On this day in history jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)   

1896  On December - 07 juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer   

1899  On December - 07 antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82   

1900  On this day in history max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.   

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  Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune) on December - 07.   

1906  On this day in history george Richard James, saxophonist   

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

1908  Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist on this day in history.   

1909  On December - 07 leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents first thermosetting plastic   

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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 this day in history.   

1302  On this day in history birth of azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)   

1542  On December - 07 birth of mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587)   

1545  Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567) was born on December - 07.   

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

1561  Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

1598  Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy) was born on December - 07.   

0043  On this day in history death of cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)   

0283  Death of Pope Eutychian on this day in history.   

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 December - 07 death of king Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)   

1295  On this day in history 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.