Notable Historical Events on December 7th
December 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
43 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated. |
BC AD | |
185 |
Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) |
1354 |
Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty |
1696 |
Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull. |
1724 |
Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities. |
1732 |
The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. |
1741 |
Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia |
1783 |
Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London |
1783 |
William Pitt Jr (24) becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister |
1787 |
Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution |
1804 |
Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute |
1808 |
James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President |
1835 |
Bavarian Ludwig railway opens - first German steam railway |
1836 |
Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
1842 |
NY Philharmonic's 1st concert |
1862 |
Battle of Hartsville, TN |
1862 |
Battle of Prairie Grove, AR |
1864 |
Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia |
1868 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1 |
1872 |
HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise |
1875 |
Natives Sons of the West organized |
1876 |
NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked |
1877 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of "Scientific American" |
1885 |
49th Congress (1885-87) convenes |
1889 |
Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London |
1891 |
52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session |
1895 |
Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies |
1900 |
Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission. |
1902 |
Britain and Germany issue an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding that President Cipriano Castro pay claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899 |
1907 |
Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring |
1907 |
The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha |
1909 |
Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) |
1911 |
Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC |
1911 |
Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria |
1912 |
Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt |
1916 |
British government of David Lloyd George forms |
1916 |
David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British PM |
1917 |
US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I |
1920 |
NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81 |
1920 |
USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany |
1921 |
KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions |
1924 |
German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose) |
1925 |
Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC |
1925 |
Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Gas refrigerator patented |
1929 |
Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins |
1929 |
Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament |
1930 |
13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing |
1931 |
Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours |
1932 |
1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY |
1934 |
Wiley Post discovers jet stream |
1935 |
CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton |
1937 |
Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work |
1937 |
Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams |
1937 |
Russian chess player Alekhine recaptures world title from Max Euwe |
1938 |
Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC |
1938 |
W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio |
1939 |
Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1939 |
William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland |
1940 |
28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5 |
1940 |
North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor |
1940 |
The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew |
1941 |
Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon |
1941 |
Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
1941 |
German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
1941 |
Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii |
1941 |
Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps |
1941 |
1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward) |
1943 |
Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
1944 |
Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago |
1944 |
General Radescu forms Romanian government |
1945 |
Microwave oven patented |
1946 |
Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119 |
1949 |
15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E) |
1949 |
Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan |
1952 |
KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1953 |
Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires |
1953 |
WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Japanese government of Joshida resigns |
1954 |
KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel |
1957 |
Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year |
1958 |
Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela |
1959 |
"Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances |
1960 |
Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
1962 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
1963 |
Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game. |
1964 |
George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 |
1966 |
A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people. |
1967 |
"How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs |
1967 |
Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" |
1968 |
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit |
1968 |
Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati |
1970 |
Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma |
1970 |
West Germany & Poland normalize relations |
1971 |
"Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC |
1971 |
Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" |
1971 |
An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
1972 |
Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched |
1972 |
Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant |
1973 |
Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies |
1973 |
Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers |
1973 |
Wings release "Band on the Run" |
1975 |
10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres |
1975 |
Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus |
1975 |
Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
1975 |
Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament |
1976 |
UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term |
1977 |
Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 |
1978 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick |
1980 |
69th Davis Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Italy in Prague (4-1) |
1981 |
Spain becomes a member of the NATO |
1982 |
Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building |
1982 |
In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US. |
1983 |
2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 |
1983 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984 |
Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) |
1985 |
51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB) |
1985 |
Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
1986 |
Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1986 |
Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti |
1987 |
43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) |
1987 |
Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting |
1987 |
Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank |
1988 |
6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless) |
1988 |
Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN |
1988 |
Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC |
1988 |
NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach |
1988 |
Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract |
1989 |
C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC |
1990 |
Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages |
1990 |
Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement |
1991 |
A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup |
1992 |
Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
1993 |
Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast |
1993 |
Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery |
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 |
5th Billboard Music Awards: Ace of Base & Mariah Carey win |
1994 |
Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide |
1995 |
NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12 |
1995 |
US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands |
1997 |
Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic |
1999 |
The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of 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 |
Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. |
2006 |
A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties. |
2007 |
The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit. |
2010 |
Iceland officially leaves the recession with growth of 1.2% in the third quarter |
2015 |
7.2-magnitude earthquake rattles Tajikistan |
2015 |
Venezuela's opposition party wins parliament |
2017 |
Hamas calls for new Palestinian uprising against Israel |
2017 |
Saudi Arabia condemns Trump decision to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel |
2017 |
Palestinians call general strike, rallies to protest Trump Jerusalem move |
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