Today in History for 7th December 2016:
Historical Events
1696 – Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1868 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1907 – The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha
1990 – Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Hussein’s decision to free hostages
1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
Famous Birthdays
903 – Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
1731 – Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1810 – Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1888 – Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
1903 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1943 – Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
Famous Deaths
1725 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1970 – Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1975 – Beatrix Loughran, American figure skater (Olympic Gold 1924, 1928, 1932), dies at 75
1988 – Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1996 – Jose Donoso, Chilean writer (The Place Without Limits), dies at 72
2004 – Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)