Category: This Day In History December 07

Categories: This Day In History December

Note: These categories should be applied only to notable persons/events in history.

Historic Events:

• 1731 - Samuel Ogle becomes provincial governor of Maryland.
• 1787 - Delaware became the 1st state in the United States.
• 1842 - First concert of the New York Philharmonic. Founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
• 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; 2,403 were killed and 1,178 were wounded.
• 1972 - NASA: Apollo 17 was launched and this crew took the photo forever known as The Big Blue Marble during ascension.

Famous Birthdays:

• 1761 - Madame Tussaud, wax sculptor.
• 1805 - Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician.
• 1835 - Ben Rush Milam, helped to defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of Goliad.
• 1873 - Willa Sibert Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author.
• 1878 - Yosano Akiko, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist.
• 1893 - Fay Bainter, award-winning American actress.
• 1907 - Clarence Nash, voice of Donald Duck.
• 1909 - Mary (Gaiser) Anderson, Co-founder of REI, a retail sporting goods chain.
• 1923 - Ted Knight, Emmy Award-winning American actor.
• 1923 - Shinkichi Tajiri, American sculptor.

Famous Deaths:

• 983 - Otto II, "The Red", Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1947 - Nicholas Murray Butler, Nobel Prize co-winner and academic.
• 1984 - Jack Mercer, American voice actor, Popeye & Felix the Cat.

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志やう (鳳) 與謝野 07 Dec 1878 日本大阪府堺市 - 29 May 1942

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Fay (Bainter) Venable 07 Dec 1893 Los Angeles, California, United States - 16 Apr 1968

Nicholas Butler 02 Apr 1862 Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States - 07 Dec 1947

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Wilella Cather 07 Dec 1873 Winchester, Virginia, United States - 24 Apr 1947

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Mary (Gaiser) Anderson 07 Dec 1909 Yakima, Washington, United States - 27 Mar 2017

Anne Marie (Grosholtz) Tussaud 07 Dec 1761 Strasbourg, Basse-Alsace, France - 16 Apr 1850

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Tadeusz (Konopka) Knight 07 Dec 1923 Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States - 26 Aug 1986

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Winfield Mercer 31 Jan 1910 Worthington, Jefferson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States - 07 Dec 1984

Benjamin Milam 20 Oct 1788 Frankfort, Kentucky - 07 Dec 1835

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Clarence Nash 07 Dec 1904 Watonga, Blaine, Oklahoma, United States - 20 Feb 1985

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Samuel Ogle abt 1694 - 03 May 1752

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Otto (Ottonian) von Sachsen 955 Schwaben, Sachsen, Germany - 07 Dec 983

Otto (Ottonian) Holy Roman Emperor 980 Western Holy Roman Empire - 23 Jan 1002

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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin 07 Dec 1805 Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France - 13 Jun 1871

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Shinkichi Tajiri 07 Dec 1923 Los Angeles, California, United States - 15 Mar 2009

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