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Civil Aviation Day
Events
43
BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
1696 – Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway
in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull.
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.
1776 – 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.
1862 – US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove,
Arkansas.
1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his
first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1917 – World War I: The United States declares
war on Austria-Hungary.
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts
video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The
Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the
first television commercial in the United States,
an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored
the radio show.
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 attacks the United
States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air
Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan
by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya,
Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the
Dutch East Indies at the same time (December 8
in Asia).
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 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.
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.
1970 – The first ever general election on the
basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan
for 313 National Assembly seats.
1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces
the 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 takes the photograph known
as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
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.
1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771
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 himself.
1988 – Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake
measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly
25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel
to exist.
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.
1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger
Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures
19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
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.
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.
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.
2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general
accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa
de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West
London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
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.
2008 – The first NFL game is played in Canada
at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills
defeated the Miami Dolphins 16–3.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Flag Day (India)
Christian Feast Day:
Aemilianus (Greek Church)
Ambrose
December 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances:
Día de las Velitas, begins after sunset. (Colombia)
Quema del Diablo, begins after sunset. (Guatemala)
International Civil Aviation Day (International)
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United
States)
Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Student Day (Iran)
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