About December 7
December 7, 2022 is the 341st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 46 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 7
- 43 BC –Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
- 1696 –Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull.
- 1724 –Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
- 1787 –Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1862 –US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
- 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).
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
- 1963 –Instant replay makes its debut during an Army–Navy game.
- 1965 –Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
- 1970 –The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
- 1971 –Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
- 1972 –Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
- 1975 –Indonesia invades East Timor.
- 1987 –Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
- 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.
- 2005 –Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
- 2006 –A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
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