Historical Events on 7th December 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated. 185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) 1354 - Margaretha van Bavarians son earl Willem V signs peace treaty 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull. 1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities. 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. 1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia 1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London 1783 - William Pitt the Younger (24) becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister 1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution Naturalist and Explorer Alexander von HumboldtNaturalist and Explorer Alexander von Humboldt 1804 - Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earths magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute 1808 - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President 1835 - Bavarian Ludwig railway opens - first German steam railway 1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1842 - New York Philharmonics 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 Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James 1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise 1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized 1876 - NY Mutuals & Phila As expelled from NL for not completing sked 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of Scientific American 1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes 1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans Gondoliers premieres in London 1891 - 52nd US Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session 1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body radiation. Inventor Thomas EdisonInventor Thomas Edison 1902 - Britain and Germany issue an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding that President Cipriano Castro pay claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899 1907 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring 1907 - The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha 1909 - Belgian-born Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) 1911 - Leslie J Stuarts musical Betsy premieres in NYC 1911 - Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria 1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt 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 - Noel Cowards Easy Virtue premieres in NYC 1926 - Gas refrigerator patented Cricket Legend Donald BradmanCricket Legend Donald Bradman 1929 - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfulls XI against Ryders 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 1935 - CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton 1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work Baseball Player Ted WilliamsBaseball Player Ted Williams 1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams 1937 - Russian chess player Alekhine recaptures world title from Max Euwe 1938 - Philip Barrys 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 Baseballs Hall of Fame 1939 - William Waltons violinist concert premieres in Cleveland 1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5 1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general OConnor Baseball Player Lou GehrigBaseball Player Lou Gehrig 1940 - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew 1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon 1941 - Futshidas air fleet passes coastline of Oahu 1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends 1941 - 350 Japanese attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii: a date which will live in infamy 1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps 1941 - 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward) 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 - Israels 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 1956 - Helen OConnell joins Today Show panel 1957 - Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year 1958 - Romulo Betancourt 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 1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game. Singer-Songwriter George HarrisonSinger-Songwriter George Harrison 1964 - George Harrison changes his companys name from Mornyork to Harrisongs 1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people. 1967 - How Now, Dow Jones opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs 1967 - Otis Redding records Sittin on the Dock of the Bay 1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati 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 1971 - An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1972 - Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched First Lady and Politican Imelda MarcosFirst Lady and Politican Imelda Marcos 1972 - Philippines first 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 1975 - Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament 1976 - UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term LPGA Golfer Pat BradleyLPGA Golfer Pat Bradley 1977 - Islander Billy Smiths 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 1978 - Islanders Mike Bossys 1st career hat trick 1980 - 69th Davis Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Italy in Prague (4-1) 1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO 1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building 1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US. 1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1984 - Allan Borders 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) NHL Right Winger Mike BossyNHL Right Winger Mike Bossy 1985 - 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB) 1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 1986 - Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti 1987 - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) 1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting 1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank 1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless) 1988 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail GorbachevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev 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 Zippels musical City of Angels premieres in NYC 1990 - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Husseins 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 Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast American Singer and Actor Robert GouletAmerican Singer and Actor Robert Goulet 1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery 1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. 1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base & Mariah Carey win 1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide 1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12 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 Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern 1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement. 2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. 2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties. 2007 - The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit. 2010 - Iceland officially leaves the recession with growth of 1.2% in the third quarter
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