About December 7
December 7, 2024 is the 342nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 7
- 1696 –Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull.
- 1732 –The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
- 1787 –Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1869 –American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
- 1917 –World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1936 –Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 1941 –World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines at the same time (December 8 in Asia).
- 1946 –A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
- 1962 –Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality’s constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
- 1970 –The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
- 1975 –Indonesia invades East Timor.
- 1988 –Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
- 1988 –Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
- 1989 –Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.
- 1994 –Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.
- 1995 –The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
- 1999 –The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.
- 2003 –The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2005 –Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
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