What are the important events that happened on December 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 7 is the 342nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 24, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,892,160 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontadigon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac 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 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,369 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 7 Historical Events
- 1917 –World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1946 –A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
- 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.
- 1982 –In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –The first NFL game is played in Canada at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins 16–3.
Who were born on December 7?
- 1891 –Fay Bainter, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1968)
- 1920 –Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
- 1943 –Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
- 1943 –Nicholas Katz, American mathematician
- 1944 –Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
- 1945 –Marion Rung, Finnish singer
- 1949 –Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
- 1954 –Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber
- 1960 –Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
- 1969 –Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian writer and journalist
Who died on December 7?
- 1254 –Pope Innocent IV
- 1906 –Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
- 1913 –Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian religious figure (b. 1828)
- 1917 –Léon Minkus, German-born Czech composer and violinist (b. 1826)
- 1941 –Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor: Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American US Navy Captain (b. 1888)
- 1941 –Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor: Herbert C. Jones, American US Navy Ensign, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1918)
- 1969 –Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1993 –Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician (b. 1905)
- 1998 –Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
- 2010 –Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
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