Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7
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West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941 -
Jesse James -
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei -
"The Blue Marble" -
HMS Spiteful -
Bust of Cicero -
Artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft -
A church after the 1988 Armenian earthquake -
Jack Fingleton
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of the Little Candles in Colombia; | unreferenced section |
| Armed Forces Flag Day in India; | lots of citations needed |
| 1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics. | lots of CN tags (5) for length |
| 1787 – Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution. | refimprove section |
| 1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon. | lots of CN tags (10) |
| 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. | Article doesn't say it was the first confirmed robbery |
| 1904 – Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful, the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal. | date not in article |
| 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. | lots of CN tags (12) |
| 1946 – The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history happened at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan. | cleanup list |
| 1965 – East–West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI issued a declaration, simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | summarize section, refimprove section |
| 1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble", the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon. | refimprove section |
| 1987 – A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – A passenger murdered six people and injured nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York. | Orange banner for more citations |
| 2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill. | Yellow bare urls banner |
Eligible
- 43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of ancient Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.
- 1837 – British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
- 1942 – Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
- 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton (pictured) became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 1975 – The Indonesian military began a lengthy occupation of East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism.
- 1988 – A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
- 2011 – The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
- 2015 – The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.
- Born/died this day: | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi |b|903| Richard Bellingham |d|1672|Charles Saunders |d|1775| Willa Cather |b|1873| Hamilton Fish III |b|1888|Noam Chomsky |b|1928|Martha Layne Collins |b|1936| Barbara Howard |d|2002|Jeane Kirkpatrick |d|2006| Harry Morgan |d|2011|
December 7: Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity); National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States (1941)
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Solidus of Tiberius
- 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.
- 1972 – Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after his conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.
- 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
- 2014 - The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.
- Charles Garnier (d. 1649)
- Theodor Schwann (b. 1810)
- Joseph Cook (b. 1860)
- Nicholas Hoult (b. 1989)
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