Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7

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  West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
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  Jesse James
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  Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
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  "The Blue Marble"
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  HMS Spiteful
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  Bust of Cicero
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  Artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft
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  A church after the 1988 Armenian earthquake

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Blurb	Reason
Day of the Little Candles in Colombia;	unreferenced section
Armed Forces Flag Day in India;	lots of citations needed
1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.	lots of CN tags (5) for length
1787 – Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution.	refimprove section
1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon.	lots of CN tags (10)
1904 – Comparative trials began between Template:HMS, the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal.	date not in article
1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.	lots of CN tags (12)
1946 – The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history happened at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.	refimprove section
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan.	cleanup list
1965 – East–West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI issued a declaration, simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.	summarize section, refimprove section
1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble", the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.	refimprove section
1987 – A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors.	refimprove section
1993 – A passenger murdered six people and injured nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York.	Orange banner for more citations
2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill.	Yellow bare urls banner

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• 43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of ancient Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.
• 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor Template:Nowrap had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.
• 1837 – British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.
• 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
• 1972 – Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann and Ludwig Stumpfegger near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after Bormann's conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.
• 1988 – A Template:Nowrap earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
• 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft (illustration shown) arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
• 2005 – Spanish authorities captured Croatian Army general Ante Gotovina, who was wanted for war crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence; he was eventually cleared of all charges.
• 2011 – The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
• 2014 - The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.

• Born/died this day: | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi |b|903| Charles Garnier |d|1649| Richard Bellingham |d|1672|Theodor Schwann |b|1810| Joseph Cook |b|1860| Willa Cather |b|1873| Martha Layne Collins |b|1936| Nicholas Hoult |b|1989| Jeane Kirkpatrick |d|2006| Harry Morgan |d|2011|

December 7: Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity); National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States (1941)

• 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton (pictured) became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
• 1942 – Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
• 1975 – The Indonesian military began a lengthy occupation of East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism.
• 2015 – The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.