MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2015

Today is Monday, December 7, the 341st day of 2015. There are 24 days left in the year.

1842 ― New York Philharmonic's 1st concert

1911 ― National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria

1939―Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1941―1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)

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 Springs-Pueblo CO (CBS) 1st broadcast

1953 ― Israel's PM Ben-Gureon 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 the Today Show panel

1957 ― Tony Kubek of the Yankees selected as American League Rookie of the Year

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