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Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from the aircraft carrier Shōkaku.
West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Jesse James
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
"The Blue Marble"
HMS Spiteful
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of the Little Candles in Colombia; | unreferenced section |
| 1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics. | lots of inline tags |
| 1787 – Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution. | refimprove section |
| 1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon. | lots of CN tags |
| 1946 – The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history happened at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan. | cleanup list |
| 1965 – East–West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI issued a declaration, simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | summarize section, refimprove section |
| 1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble", the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon. | refimprove section |
| 1987 – A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.
- 1837 – At the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion, British troops forced William Lyon Mackenzie's rebels to retreat in about 15 minutes.
- 1904 – Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful, the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal.
- 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.
- 1988 – A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.
- 1993 – A passenger murdered six people and injured nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York.
- 2005 – Spanish authorities captured Croatian Army general Ante Gotovina, who was wanted for war crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence; he was eventually cleared of all charges.
- 2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill.
- Born/died this day: Richard Bellingham (d. 1672) · Charles Saunders (d. 1775) · Willa Cather (b. 1873) · Hamilton Fish III (b. 1888) · Martha Layne Collins (b. 1936) · Barbara Howard (d. 2002)
December 7: Armed Forces Flag Day in India; National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States
Akatsuki
Akatsuki
- 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.
- 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
- 1942 – Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
- 1975 – The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism, beginning an occupation.
- 2015 – The JAXA space probe Akatsuki (illustration shown) entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (b. 903) · Charles Garnier (d. 1649) · Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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