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Events from History on December 07

xxxx : Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
xxxx : Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head &
xxxx : right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers
xxxx : ror Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
xxxx : utychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1354 : Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1646 : Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry
1741 : Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1783 : Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 : William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British premier
1787 : Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 : James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1835 : German railway Neurenberg-Frth opens
1836 : Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 : NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 : Battle of Hartsville, TN
1862 : Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
1864 : Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
1868 : Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1872 : HMS Challenger sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise
1875 : Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 : NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 : Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 : 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 : Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London
1891 : 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 : Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1907 : Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 : Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 : Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in NYC
1911 : Natl Hockey Assn forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria
1912 : Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 : British govt of David Lloyd George forms
1916 : David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1917 : US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1920 : NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 : USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 : KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 : German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 : Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 : No‰l Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in NYC
1926 : Gas refrigerator patented
1929 : Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 : Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 : 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1931 : Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 : 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 : Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1937 : Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 : Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 : Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 : Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in NYC
1938 : W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 : Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 : William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 : North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1941 : 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1941 : Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 : Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 : German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 : Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941 : Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1943 : Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
1944 : Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 : General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 : Microwave oven patented
1946 : Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 : 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 : Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 : KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 : Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 : WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 : Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
1954 : KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1956 : Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 : Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 : R¢mulo B‚tancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 : "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 : Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 : Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1964 : George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 : Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift
1965 : mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1967 : "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 : Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 : M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 : Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 : Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1970 : Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 : West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 : "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 : Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 : Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972 : Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 : Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 : Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 : Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 : 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 : Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 : Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1976 : UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1977 : Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
1978 : Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1981 : Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 : Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1983 : 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 : 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 : Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 : Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Ha‹ti
1987 : 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in Calif (man shot pilots)
1987 : Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 : Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
1987 : Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 : 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed
1988 : Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
1988 : Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 : Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
1988 : Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 : NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 : Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1989 : C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
1990 : Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
1990 : Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 : A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 : Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 : Henri Konan B‚di‚ names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 : Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1994 : 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 : Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 : US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1996 : Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1997 : Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic

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