December 7
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December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 24 days remaining.
Events
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden , London .
1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution .
1815 - Michel Ney , Marshal of France , is executed by firing squad , after been convicted of treason by the Bourbon Restoration government of Louis XVIII for his support of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Hundred Days .
1917 - World War I : United States declares war on Austria-Hungary .
1941 - The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor officially brings the United States into World War II .
1941 - World War II : The Japanese attack Hong Kong
1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people.
1949 - Chinese Civil War : The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei .
1962 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality 's constitution , devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1972 - Apollo 17 , the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take The Blue Marble image as they leave the Earth.
1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor .
1982 - First US execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
1988 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25.000, injures 15.000 and leaves 400.000 persons homeless. Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1989 - In the third and final installment of their historic boxing trilogy, Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran fight in Las Vegas ; Leonard retains the WBC Super Middleweight championship of the world with a 12 round decision.
1993 - South Africa transitional executive council established
2004 - Hamid Karzai is inaugurated as president of Afghanistan .
2004 - John Kufuor is re-elected as president of Ghana .
Births
521 - Saint Columba , Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597 )
1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian artist (d. 1680 )
1637 - Bernardo Pasquini , Italian composer (d. 1710 )
1670 - John Aislabie , director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742 )
1761 - Marie Tussaud , museum proprietress and waxwork modeller (d. 1850 )
1784 - Allan Cunningham , Scottish poet (d. 1842 )
1801 - Johann Nestroy , dramatist and actor (d. 1862 )
1847 - George Grossmith , English actor and comic writer (d. 1912 )
1860 - Sir Joseph Cook , sixth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947 )
1863 - Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer (d. 1945 )
1863 - Richard Sears , department store founder (d. 1914 )
1873 - Willa Cather , American novelist (d. 1947 )
1879 - Rudolf Friml , American composer (d. 1972 )
1887 - Ernst Toch , composer (d. 1964 )
1888 - Joyce Cary , author (d. 1957 )
1888 - Hamilton Fish , American politician (d. 1991 )
1903 - Danilo Blanusa , Croatian mathematician (d. 1987 )
1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky , Russian singer
1905 - Gerard Kuiper , astronomer (d. 1973 )
1910 - Louis Prima , musician (d. 1978 )
1912 - Daniel Jones , composer
1915 - Eli Wallach , actor
1924 - Mário Soares , President of Portugal
1927 - Helen Watts , Welsh contralto
1928 - Noam Chomsky , American linguist and political writer
1932 - Ellen Burstyn , actress
1934 - Gordon Parks Jr. , director (d. 1979 )
1942 - Harry Chapin , musician (d. 1981 )
1942 - Peter Tomarken , game show host
1944 - Daniel Chorzempa , organist
1945 - Marion Rung , Finnish singer
1947 - Johnny Bench , Baseball Hall of Famer
1948 - Gary Morris , singer and actor
1949 - Tom Waits , singer, composer, and actor
1956 - Larry Bird , Basketball Hall of Famer
1966 - C. Thomas Howell , actor
1972 - Hermann Maier , Austrian ski driver
1973 - Chasey Lain , actress
1973 - Terrell Owens , American football star
1987 - Aaron Carter , singer
1988 - Emily Browning , Australian actress
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
Deaths
43 BC - Cicero , Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC )
283 - St. Eutychian , Pope
1254 - Pope Innocent IV
1632 - Sissinios , Emperor of Ethiopia
1683 - John Oldham , English poet (b. 1653 )
1793 - Joseph Bara , French Revolution child-hero (b. 1780 ), executed by enemies
1815 - Michel Ney , a marshal of the French army, executed by firing squad
1817 - William Bligh , British naval officer
1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf , German Biblical scholar (b. 1815 )
1894 - Ferdinand Marie , French diplomat and engineer
1902 - Thomas Nast , cartoonist
1956 - Huntley Gordon , pioneer Hollywood actor
1970 - Rube Goldberg , cartoonist
1975 - Thornton Wilder , playwright
1985 - Potter Stewart , United States Supreme Court justice
1985 - Robert Graves , author
1990 - Joan Bennett , actress
1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Côte d'Ivoire political leader
2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American Evangelical theologian , founder of Christianity Today magazine
2003 - Azie Taylor Morton , Treasurer of the United States
2003 - Raúl Vale , Venezuelan-Mexican entertainer
2004 - Jerry Scoggins , country singer (b. 1913 )
Holidays and observances
External links
December 6 - December 8 - November 7 - January 7 -- listing of all days
