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 341^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,417,760 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 ‘trihectatetracontahenagon’ 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 72 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 4,734 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 7 Historical Events

• 43 BC –
  Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
• 1724 –
  Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
• 1776 –
  Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
• 1917 –
  World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• 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.
• 1988 –
  Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on December 7?

• 1838 –
  Sir Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
• 1916 –
  Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943)
• 1924 –
  John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
• 1947 –
  Johnny Bench, American baseball player
• 1958 –
  Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1968 –
  Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1972 –
  Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
• 1973 –
  Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (d. 2006)
• 1973 –
  Damien Rice, Irish musician
• 1992 –
  Michael Barron, English footballer/dancer

Who died on December 7?

• 1498 –
  Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. 1433)
• 1874 –
  Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
• 1941 –
  Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor: Mervyn S. Bennion, American US Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
• 1956 –
  Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
• 1980 –
  Darby Crash, American punk-rock musician (b. 1958)
• 1990 –
  Jean Duceppe, French-Canadian actor (b. 1923)
• 1993 –
  Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician (b. 1905)
• 1998 –
  Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish supercentenarian (b. 1892)
• 2009 –
  Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)