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 341st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,765,065,600 seconds 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 ‘trihectatetracontahenagon’ day.
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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 72 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 4,734 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 7 Historical Events
- 43 BC –Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
- 1936 –Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2008 –The first NFL game is played in Canada at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins 16–3.
Who were born on December 7?
- 521 –Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
- 1924 –Mário Soares, former (17th) President of Portugal
- 1937 –Thad Cochran, American politician, senator from Mississippi
- 1941 –Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and writer
- 1956 –Larry Bird, American basketball player
- 1974 –Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
- 1978 –Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
- 1979 –Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
- 1989 –Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
- 1991 –Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor
Who died on December 7?
- 43 BC –Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
- 1817 –William Bligh, British admiral and HMS Bounty figure (b. 1745)
- 1879 –Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence movement figure (b. 1811)
- 1938 –Anna Marie Hahn, German-born American serial killer (b. 1906)
- 1960 –Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
- 1970 –Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
- 1975 –Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
- 1989 –William Calhoun, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
- 1990 –Jean Duceppe, French-Canadian actor (b. 1923)
- 2003 –Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
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