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Events on the 7th of December in history

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07 Dec 2043 Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
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07 Dec 0283 St. Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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07 Dec 0574 Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne in favor of his general Tiberius, proclaiming him Caesar.
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07 Dec 1646 Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry
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07 Dec 1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
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07 Dec 1724 Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
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07 Dec 1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
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07 Dec 1741 Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
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07 Dec 1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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07 Dec 1783 Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
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07 Dec 1783 William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
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07 Dec 1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
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07 Dec 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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07 Dec 1808 James Madison elected US President / George Clinton vice-pres
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07 Dec 1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th President
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07 Dec 1862 Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee
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07 Dec 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas
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07 Dec 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
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07 Dec 1864 Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek / Cypress Swamp, Georgia
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07 Dec 1868 Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
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07 Dec 1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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07 Dec 1875 Natives Sons of the West organized
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07 Dec 1876 New York Mutuals and Philadelphia Athletics expelled from NL for not completing sked
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07 Dec 1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
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07 Dec 1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
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07 Dec 1889 Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers, " premieres in London
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07 Dec 1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
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07 Dec 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
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07 Dec 1907 Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
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07 Dec 1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
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07 Dec 1911 Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy, " premieres in New York City
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07 Dec 1911 National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria
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07 Dec 1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
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07 Dec 1916 British government of David Lloyd George forms
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07 Dec 1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British Prime Minister
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07 Dec 1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
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07 Dec 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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07 Dec 1920 New South Wales make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
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07 Dec 1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
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07 Dec 1921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
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07 Dec 1924 German election (Social Democrats win / Nazis & Communists lose)
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07 Dec 1925 Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St, New York City
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07 Dec 1926 Gas refrigerator patented
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07 Dec 1929 Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
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07 Dec 1930 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows Country Club
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07 Dec 1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
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07 Dec 1931 Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
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07 Dec 1932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in New York
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07 Dec 1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
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07 Dec 1935 CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
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07 Dec 1936 Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
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07 Dec 1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
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07 Dec 1937 Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
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07 Dec 1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
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07 Dec 1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
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07 Dec 1940 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
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07 Dec 1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
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07 Dec 1941 Australian bombers land on Timor / Ambon
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07 Dec 1941 German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
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07 Dec 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
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07 Dec 1941 Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
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07 Dec 1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
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07 Dec 1943 Cairo: President Roosevelt travels back to the US
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07 Dec 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
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07 Dec 1944 General Radescu forms Romanian government
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07 Dec 1945 Microwave oven patented
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07 Dec 1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
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07 Dec 1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
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07 Dec 1949 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
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07 Dec 1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
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07 Dec 1949 Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
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07 Dec 1952 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
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07 Dec 1953 WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND / ABC) begins broadcasting
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07 Dec 1954 Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
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07 Dec 1954 KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Dec 1957 Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
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07 Dec 1959 "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
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07 Dec 1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
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07 Dec 1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
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07 Dec 1963 Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
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07 Dec 1963 Instant replay makes its debut during an American Army–Navy football game.
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07 Dec 1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
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07 Dec 1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
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07 Dec 1967 "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 performances
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07 Dec 1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
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07 Dec 1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
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07 Dec 1970 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
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07 Dec 1970 West Germany and Poland normalize relations
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07 Dec 1971 "Wild andWonderful" opens / closes at Lyceum Theater, New York City
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07 Dec 1971 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
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07 Dec 1971 Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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07 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
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07 Dec 1972 Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt using a bolo knife against her.
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 1973 Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
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07 Dec 1973 Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
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07 Dec 1973 Wings release "Band on the Run"
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07 Dec 1975 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs. Sabres
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07 Dec 1975 Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
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07 Dec 1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor
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07 Dec 1975 Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
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07 Dec 1975 Warschauer Kniefall - German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of humility towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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07 Dec 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion begins.
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07 Dec 1976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General for 2nd 5yr term
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07 Dec 1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
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07 Dec 1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
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07 Dec 1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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07 Dec 1983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
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07 Dec 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 Airport, killing 93 people.
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07 Dec 1985 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
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07 Dec 1986 Juli Inkster / Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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07 Dec 1987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
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07 Dec 1987 Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
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07 Dec 1987 Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
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07 Dec 1987 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 1988 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed
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07 Dec 1988 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
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07 Dec 1988 Earthquake in Armenia (more than 25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
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07 Dec 1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
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07 Dec 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City
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07 Dec 1988 New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
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07 Dec 1988 Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
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07 Dec 1988 Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
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07 Dec 1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
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07 Dec 1990 Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement
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07 Dec 1991 A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
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07 Dec 1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
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07 Dec 1993 Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 1994 5th Billboard Music Awards
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07 Dec 1994 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
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07 Dec 1995 NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
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07 Dec 1995 US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
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07 Dec 1997 Amy Fruhwirth and Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
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07 Dec 1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
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07 Dec 2003 The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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07 Dec 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.
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07 Dec 2005 Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes but later acquitted, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, by Spanish police.
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07 Dec 2006 A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
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07 Dec 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.
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