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1 - 25 of 25 Interesting & Fun 7th of December Facts: |
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| 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. |
| 1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general. |
| 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. |
| 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad after having been convicted of treason for his support of Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| 1917 - World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. |
| 1941 - World War II: Canada declared war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan. |
| 1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
| 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people. |
| 1949 - Chinese Civil War : The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei. |
| 1962 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. |
| 1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. |
| 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people. |
| 1970 - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise are held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats. |
| 1971 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister. |
| 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take 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. |
| 1983 - Two jetliners collide at Madrid Barajas International Airport, Madrid killing 93 people. |
| 1987 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself. |
| 1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. |
| 1989 - In their third and final fight, Sugar Ray Leonard retains the WBC Super-Middleweight Championship of the World, defeating Roberto Duran. |
| 1993 - In South Africa, the Transitional Executive Council is established. |
| 1993 - The Long Island Rail Road Massacre: 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 recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. |
| 2004 - Hamid Karzai is inaugurated as President of Afghanistan. |
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