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December 7. az év 341. (szökőévben 342.) napja a Gergely-naptár szerint. Az évből még 24 nap van hátra.
Névnapok: Ambrus, Agaton, Amarant, Amaranta, Ambos, Ambró, Ambrózia, Amrita, Ángyán, Ányos, Szabin
Események
- 574 – II. Tiberius Constantinus megkezdi uralkodást, mint bizánci császár.
- 1787 – Delaware az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 1. tagállama lesz.
- 1783 – Londonban megnyitja kapuit a Theatre Royal (Covent Garden)
- 1797 – Adaptálják a Ciszpadániai Köztársaság zászlajaként az olasz trikolor első változatát.
- 1836 – Martin Van Burent az Egyesült Államok 8. elnökévé választják.
- 1869 – IX. Piusz pápa megnyitja az Első vatikáni zsinatot.
- 1914 – A niši deklaráció.
- 1916 – David Lloyd George-ot kinevezik Nagy-Britannia miniszterelnökévé.
- 1916 – Az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia és a Német Császárság csapatai elfoglalják Bukarestet.
- 1917 – Az Egyesült Államok hadat üzen az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchiának.
- 1917 – Dzerzsinszkij javaslatára létrejön az Ellenforradalom és Szabotázs elleni Harcra, azaz a Vé-Csé-Ká (Cseka)
- 1926 – Az Electrolux szabadalmaztatja a gázzal működő hűtőszekrényt.
- 1929 – Új alkotmányt hirdetnek ki Ausztriában.
- 1930 – A Nemzeti Sportuszoda átadása a budapesti Margit-szigeten Hajós Alfréd tervei alapján.
- 1941 – Japán repülőgépekkel megtámadja az Egyesült Államok Pearl Harbor-i haditengerészeti támaszpontját, megsemmisíti az amerikai flotta jelentős részét. Magyarország hadat üzen Nagy Britanniának.
- 1972 – Útjára indul az Apollo–17 űrhajó, az utolsó amerikai holdexpedíció.
- 1975 – Indonéz csapatok betörnek Dilibe.
- 1977 – Megnyílik a lillafüredi Palotaszálló.
- 1981 – Spanyolország a NATO tagja lesz.
- 1995 – A Galileo űrszonda megérkezik a Jupiterhez.
- 1998 – A magyar fél átadja a hágai Nemzetközi Bíróságnak az 1998. szeptember 3-i szlovák beadvánnyal kapcsolatos, Bős–nagymarosi vízlépcsőrendszerrel kapcsolatos álláspontját: nem javasolja, hogy a szlovák beadvány alapján eljárás kezdődjék.
- 1998 - New Yorkban rekord magas, +23,8 °C-ot mértek.[1]
- 2002 – II. János Pál pápa Erdő Pétert nevezi ki az Esztergom-Budapesti főegyházmegye érsekévé, Magyarország prímásává
- Elefántcsontpart: Félix Houphouët Boigny emléknapja, halála évfordulóján.
- Örményország: a mártírok emléknapja az 1988-as földrengés áldozatainak emléknapja.
- a polgári repülés nemzetközi napja - a Nemzetközi Polgári Repülési Szervezet (International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO) 1944-es megalakulásának évfordulóján
- Szent Ambrus milánói püspök, egyháztanító emléknapja a katolikus egyházban[3]
- Pearl Harbor nemzeti emléknap az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban - az 1941-es Pearl Harbor-i csata évfordulóján
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December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 24 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
- 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia.
- 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.[1]
- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
- 1724 – Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is 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, England.
- 1776 – Gilbert du Motier, 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.
- 1837 – The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.[2]
- 1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
- 1904 – Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
- 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1922 – The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
- 1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
- 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 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 carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
- 1942 – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
- 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 the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
- 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 the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
- 1971 – The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.[3]
- 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
- 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.[4] The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.[5]
- 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
- 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 Airport, killing 93 people.
- 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, 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 steers the plane into the ground.
- 1988 – The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
- 1993 – Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
- 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.
- 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the 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 U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
- 2015 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
- 2016 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
- 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill to legally recognize same-sex marriages is passed in Australia's parliament.
- Armed Forces Flag Day (India)
- Christian feast day:
- Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances:
- Day of the Little Candles, begins after sunset (Colombia)
- Flag Base Day (Scientology)
- International Civil Aviation Day
- National Heroes Day (East Timor)
- National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United States)
- Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)
