7 December

The **7t o December** is the 341t day o the year (342t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 24 days bidin.

## Events

* 43 BC - Roman philosopher, lawyer an politeecian Cicero is assassinatit.
* 1787 - Delaware becomes the 1st state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
* 1916 - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1917 - Warld War I: The Unitit States declares war on Austrick-Hungary.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Japanese forces cairy oot a major attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the hame o the American Paceefic fleet.
* 1943 - Lebanon gets its current banner.
* 1970 - Wast German Chancellor Willy Brandt sinks tae his knees at the War memorial in Warsaw, Poland in a sign o reconciliation.
* 1972 - Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt.
* 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Muin mission tae-date, launches - The Blue marble photograph o the Yird is taken.
* 1975 - Indonesie forces occupy East Timor.
* 1983 - A plane collision at Madrid's Barajas Airport kills 93 fowk.
* 1988 - Spitak, Armenie (then-pairt o the Soviet Union) is hit bi a major yirdquauk, killin 25,000 fowk. 
* 1995 - The "Galileo" spacecraft arrives at the planet Jupiter.
* 2003 - The Conservative Pairty o Canadae is offeecially creatit.
* 2009 - Climate chynge talks stairt in Copenhagen.
* 2016 - The Indonesie province o Aceh (on Sumatra) is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin ower 100 fowk.
* 2017 - Australie legalises same-sex mairage.

## Births

* 521 - Columba, Erse Christian meesionar (d. 597)
* 1545 - Henry Stuart, Laird Darnley (d. 1567)
* 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian airtist an airchitect (d. 1680)
* 1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scots author an poet (d. 1842)
* 1801 - Johann Nestroy, Austrick actor (d. 1862)
* 1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian componer (d. 1945)
* 1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer an planetar scientist (d. 1973)
* 1915 - Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1917 - George Hamilton, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
* 1924 - Mário Soares, Preses o Portugal (d. 2017)
* 1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher an writer
* 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
* 1939 - Ian Ure, Scots fitbawer
* 1952 - Susan Collins, American politeecian
* 1965 - Colin Hendry, Scots fitbawer
* 1979 - Sara Bareilles, American sangster
* 1980 - John Terry, Inglis fitbawer
* 1984 - Robert Kubica, Pols racin driver
* 1989 - Nicholas Hoult, Inglis actor
* 1990 - David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
* 1994 - Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese feegur skeitcher
* 2003 - Catharina-Amalia, Princess o Orange, Dutch ryal

## Daiths
* 43 BC - Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer an politeecian (b. 106 BC)
* 983 - Otto II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 955)
* 1254 - Pape Innocent IV
* 1817 - William Bligh, Inglis naval officer (b. 1754)
* 1834 - Edward Irving, Scots clergyman (b. 1792)
* 1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat an entrepreneur (b. 1805)
* 1906 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss educator an jurnalist (b. 1833)
* 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Preses o the Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
* 1993 - Wolfgang Paul, German pheesicist (b. 1913)
* 1997 - Billy Bremner, Scots fitbawer (b. 1942)
* 1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
* 2020 - Chuck Yeager, American air force afficer an test pilot (b. 1923)

## Halidays
* Airmed Forces Banner Day (Indie)
* Eve o the Immaculate Conception (Wastren Christianity)
* Internaitional Ceevil Aviation Day
* Naitional Heroes' Day (East Timor)
* Naitional Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (Unitit States)
* Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenie)

## References