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07 December, 2006

A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.

07 December, 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 US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

07 December, 2003

The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

07 December, 2001

John P. Walters is sworn in as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

07 December, 1998

Yachtsman Jesse Martin departs from Melbourne on his circumnavigation journey around the world.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 1988

Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 1983

An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in intense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.

07 December, 1982

In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.

07 December, 1975

Indonesia invades East Timor.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 1970

The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.

07 December, 1966

A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.

07 December, 1965

Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

07 December, 1962

Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principalitys constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.

07 December, 1949

Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.

07 December, 1946

A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 129 people.

07 December, 1941

World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.

07 December, 1941

World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

07 December, 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.

07 December, 1917

World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.

07 December, 1900

Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.

07 December, 1889

The Gondoliers - one of the most popular of the comic operas created by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - opens in London

07 December, 1826

Malacca High School (SMK Tinggi Melaka) is established in Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia.

07 December, 1815

Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad after having been convicted of treason for his support of Napoleon I.

07 December, 1787

Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.

07 December, 1776

Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.

07 December, 1732

The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

07 December, 1724

Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Torun) by Polish authorities.

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