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Today In History - December 7 |
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December 7, 1877 Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the gramophone |
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On This Date in History |
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283 St. Eutychian ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 1741 Elisabeth Petrovna becomes the Tsarina of Russia 1783 Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London 1783 William Pitt, Jr. becomes the British Premier at age 24 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution 1808 James Madison is elected the U.S. President 1835 The German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens 1836 Martin Van Buren is elected the 8th President 1842 The NY Philharmonic's first concert 1862 Battle of Hartsville, TN 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR 1864 Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek, Georgia 1868 The Jesse James gang robs a bank in Gallatin, MO 1875 Native Sons of the West is organized 1877 Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the Gramophone 1885 The 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes 1889 Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London 1891 The 52nd Congress, the first to appropriate $1 billion, holds its first session 1907 Eugene Corri becomes the first referee in a boxing ring 1909 Leo Baekeland patents first thermosetting plastic: Bakelite 1912 A Bust of Queen Nefertete is found in El-Amarna, Egypt 1916 British government of David Lloyd George forms 1917 The U.S. becomes the 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I 1925 The Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W. 47th St. New York City 1926 The gas refrigerator is patented 1934 Wiley Post discovers the Jet Stream 1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims that married women are forbidden to work 1937 The Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams 1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures the world title from Max Euwe 1939 Lou Gehrig is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1941 The first Japanese submarine is sunk by a U.S. ship 1941 Futshida's air fleet passes the coastline of Oahu 1941 The German siege of Tobruk ends 1941 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor 1945 The microwave oven is patented 1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119 people 1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan 1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires 1954 The Japanese government of Joshida resigns 1956 Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel 1958 Romulo Betancourt is elected the President of Venezuela 1960 The Ivory Coast claims independence from France 1962 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at the US Nevada Test Site 1968 M. Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923 1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 1971 Wings release their first album "Wild Life" 1972 Philippine's first lady Imelda Marcos is stabbed and wounded by an assailant 1973 The Wings release "Band on the Run" 1975 The Indonesian army occupies East Timor 1976 U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim for a second term 1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO alliance 1983 Two jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 people 1983 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1986 President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti 1987 43 people die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California after a man shot the pilots 1987 Gorbachev arrives in the U.S. for a summit meeting 1987 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank 1988 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroys the city and kills 60,000 people and leaves 5,000,000 homeless 1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at the UN 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev is cheered by Wall St. crowds in New York City 1990 The Iraqi parliament endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages 1990 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement 1992 The Galileo spacecraft passes the North Pole of Moon: Peary Crater 1993 Singer Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery 1994 The 5th Billboard Music Awards 1994 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide 1995 U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter 1997 Amy Fruhwirth and Clarence Rose win the LPGA J.C. Penney Classic |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair (the Persian mystic) 1542 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland 1557 Girolamo Trombeti 1598 Giovanni Bernini 1604 Ambrosius Reiner 1637 Barnardo Pasquini 1648 Giovanni Maria Capelli 1754 Jack Jouett 1761 Madame (Marie Grosholtz) Tussaud 1772 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz 1784 Allan Cunningham 1801 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy 1808 Hugh McCulloch 1810 Theodor Schwann 1823 Leopold Kronecker 1830 Luigi Cremona 1835 Dom Joseph Pothier 1840 Hermann Goetz 1842 Otto Ammon 1847 James Deacon White 1847 Solomon Schechter 1857 Nicola van Westerhout 1862 Paul Adam 1863 John Ebenezer West 1863 Pietro Mascagni 1863 Svetolik Rankovic 1872 Johan Huizinga 1873 Willa Cather 1876 Ludwig Schiedermair 1878 Akiko Yosano 1879 Rudolf Friml 1882 Warren Bardsley 1887 Ernst Toch 1888 Hamilton Fish 1888 Joyce Cary 1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun 1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham 1889 Honore-Gabriel Marcel 1891 Fay Bainter 1892 Nora Nicholson 1894 Stuart Davis 1895 Jack Pennick 1905 Gerard Kuiper 1906 George Richard James 1908 Jacques Gans 1910 Richard Franko Goldman 1912 Louis Prima 1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh 1915 Eli Wallach 1917 Helen Gurley Brown 1918 Jorunn Vidar 1919 Ellen Stewart 1921 Arne Dorumsgaard 1922 Howard Zinn 1923 Ted Knight 1924 Mario Soares 1926 Victor Kermit Kiam II 1932 Ellen Burstyn 1932 Geoff Lawson 1936 Martha Layne Collins 1937 Thad Cochran 1940 Kumar Shahani 1942 Harry Chapin 1947 Johnny Bench 1947 Mino Reitano 1947 Peter de Jong 1947 Vincent Baggetta 1948 Gary Morris 1948 Yoko Morishita 1949 Tom Waits 1951 Henk Temming 1952 Susan Collins 1953 Bertin Osborne 1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo 1954 Julie Halston 1954 Mike Nolan 1955 Priscilla Barnes 1956 Larry Bird 1961 Mary Beth Evans 1962 Grecia Colmenares 1963 Barbara Weathers 1963 Kristi Albers 1964 Duncan Miller 1966 C. Thomas Howell 1967 Tino Martinez 1967 Vaclav Chalupa 1968 Cammy Myler 1968 Keith Goganious 1968 Melissa Iverson 1968 Ricky Ervins 1968 Tom Myslinski 1969 Sabine Hack 1970 Courtney Browne 1970 Ed Robinson 1970 Rob Olson 1971 Ben Atkins 1971 Mauricio Hadad 1972 Bobby Schoonens 1972 Clay Shiver 1972 Jordi Buritlo 1972 Kevin Dogins 1973 Rea Marie Bavilla 1973 Terrell Owens 1974 Alex Radutescu 1974 Annette Salmeen 1975 Nikola Wapzarow 1977 Fernando Vargas 1977 Francesca Lubiani 1987 Aaron Carter |
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