About December 7
December 7, 2023 is the 341st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 65 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.
- 1776 –Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
- 1787 –Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1930 –W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
- 1936 –Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1983 –An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
- 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.
- 2008 –The first NFL game is played in Canada at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins 16–3.
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