SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2019

1741-Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia

1783-Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London

1842-New York Philharmonic's first concert

1877-Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the gramophone

1895-Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies

1917-U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I

1924-German election (Social Democrats win; Nazis, Communists lose)

1934-Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1945-Microwave oven patented

1949-Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan

1960-Ivory Coast claims independence from France

1970-West Germany, Poland normalize relations

1972-Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos stabbed, wounded by an assailant

1975-Indonesian army occupies East Timor

1983-Two jets collide at Madrid Airport, killing 93