What are the important events that happened on December 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 7 is the 342^nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 24, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,892,160 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontadigon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,369 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 7 Historical Events

• 43 BC –
  Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
• 1724 –
  Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines at the same time (December 8 in Asia).
• 1965 –
  Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
• 1970 –
  The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
• 1971 –
  Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
• 1975 –
  Indonesia invades East Timor.
• 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.
• 2005 –
  Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
• 2006 –
  A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.

Who were born on December 7?

• 1561 –
  Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
• 1784 –
  Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
• 1863 –
  Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)
• 1916 –
  Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943)
• 1924 –
  John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
• 1942 –
  Alex Johnson, American baseball player
• 1956 –
  Larry Bird, American basketball player
• 1970 –
  Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model
• 1976 –
  Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 –
  Jennifer Carpenter, American actress

Who died on December 7?

• 1254 –
  Pope Innocent IV
• 1295 –
  Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1243)
• 1842 –
  Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
• 1913 –
  Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian religious figure (b. 1828)
• 1969 –
  Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1977 –
  Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1981 –
  Ava Helen Pauling, American human rights activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 –
  Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician (b. 1905)
• 1993 –
  Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 2005 –
  Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish supercentenarian (b. 1892)