December 7 in History

Historical Events on December 7

43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.

1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

1842 First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.

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.

1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.

1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger 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.

2016 Syrian army continues large-scale attack and controls the revival (Sheikh Lutfi, Marja, Bab al-Nairab, Maadi, Al-Salhin) in the east of Aleppo backed by Russian Air Force and Iranian militias.

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Famous Birthdays on December 7

1928 Noam Chomsky

1980 John Terry

1985 Dean Ambrose

1994 Yuzuru Hanyu

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Famous Deaths on December 7

43 BC Cicero

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor

1993 Félix Houphouët-Boigny

1997 Billy Bremner

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