About December 7
December 7, 2021 is the 341st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 56 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 7
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality’s constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
- 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.
- 1988 –Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
- 1993 –The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
- 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.
- 2006 –A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
- 2007 –The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.
- 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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