Daily Calendar for Thursday, December 7, 2023
Born
- Willa Cather (author) –
- Harry Chapin (musician) –
- Johnny Bench (baseball player) –
- Ron Hynes (Canadian singer-songwriter) –
- Larry Bird (basketball player) –
- Terrell Owens (football player) –
- Aaron Carter (singer) –
- Emily Browning (actress) –
- Torri Huske (Olympic swimmer) –
Died
- Rube Goldberg (cartoonist) –
- Thornton Wilder (playwright) –
- Jerry Scoggins (sang “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” which introduced the Clampett clan on The Beverly Hillbillies) –
- Harry Morgan (actor) –
Events
- The steam locomotive was used for the first time in Germany when a railroad opened from Nuremberg to Furth –
- The first Christmas postage stamp was released in Canada –
- Christmas seals sold for the first time –
- The crew of Apollo 17, while on their way to the Moon, took the famous “Blue Marble” photo of Earth from approximately 28,000 miles away, –
- Hockey player Gordie Howe scored his 1,000th professional goal
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Weather
- The Connecticut and Merrimack rivers in New England flooded after a great rainstorm –
- An ice storm in Nashville, Tennessee, cut electricity to 40,000 houses for several wintry hours –
- Denver, Colorado’s temperature plunged to 0 degrees F –
- Gunnison, Colorado, experienced a frigid temperature of -24 degrees F –
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