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

• 1732 –
  The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
• 1869 –
  American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
• 1936 –
  Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
• 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 International Airport, killing 93 people.
• 1989 –
  Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.
• 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.
• 1999 –
  The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.
• 2003 –
  The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
• 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?

• 521 –
  Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
• 1887 –
  Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964)
• 1915 –
  Eli Wallach, American actor
• 1916 –
  Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
• 1925 –
  Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver
• 1952 –
  Susan Collins, American politician
• 1977 –
  Eric Chavez, American baseball player
• 1988 –
  Emily Browning, Australian actress
• 1989 –
  Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
• 1989 –
  Nicholas Hoult, English actor

Who died on December 7?

• 1672 –
  Richard Bellingham, English colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
• 1793 –
  Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
• 1906 –
  Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
• 1960 –
  Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
• 1969 –
  Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1969 –
  Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1970 –
  Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• 1985 –
  Potter Stewart, American jurist (b. 1915)
• 2005 –
  Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish supercentenarian (b. 1892)
• 2010 –
  Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)