Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
On this day in 43 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician, was assassinated. In 1787 on this day in the United States, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution. On this day in 1940 during World War II, a North Africa: British counter offensive in northern Africa, a mobile armoured force of 36,000 under Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor outflanked the Italians at Beda Fomm and pursued them 840km (500 miles) back to Libya. This day in 1941 was "a date which will live in infamy" according to American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after the Japanese attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Ivory Coast proclaimed independence from France on this day in 1960. In 1967 on this day, Otis Redding recorded "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay". On this day in 1970, more than a quarter of a century after the end of World War II, West Germany & Poland normalized relations. Indonesia invaded East Timor on this day in 1975. In 1976 on this day, the UN Security Council endorsed Kurt Waldheim to be Secretary-General for a second 5 yearr term. Waldheim would later become President of Austria, but would become a highly controversial figure after evidence that he had not only fought in the Nazi German army, but may have been present and a part of war crimes and human rights abuses. Waldheim and his supporters denied this right to the end of his life in 2007. On this day in 1987 during the tail end of the Cold War, Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in the United States for a summit with American President Ronald Reagan. Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan at that time, on this day in 2001. On this day in 2002 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each. On this day in 2002 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movie theaters were bombed within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed and over 200 injured as a result of the terrorist attack. In 2002 on this day, Iraq formally declared to the United Nations that it had no Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's). In 2004 on this day, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1354 - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 - Battle of Hartsville, TN
1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James 1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 - NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London
1891 - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1907 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 - Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 - Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC
1911 - Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria
1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms
1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1920 - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 - KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 - German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 - Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 - Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1929 - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 - Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1931 - Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1935 - CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
Baseball Player Ted WilliamsBaseball Player Ted Williams 1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 - Russian chess player Alekhine recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 - Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC
1938 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1940 - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 - Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii
1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 - 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)
1943 - Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 - General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 - 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 - KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 - WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Japanese government of Joshida resigns
1954 - KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 - Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 - Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 - "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1964 - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967 - "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 - Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1970 - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 - "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 - Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972 - Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 - Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 - Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 - Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 - Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1975 - Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
In 1976 on this day, the UN Security Council endorsed Kurt Waldheim to be Secretary-General for a second 5 yearr term. Waldheim would later become President of Austria, but would become a highly controversial figure after evidence that he had not only fought in the Nazi German army, but may have been present and a part of war crimes and human rights abuses. Waldheil and his supporters denied this right to the end of his life in 2007.
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1985 - 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 - Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1987 - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail GorbachevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 - NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 - Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1989 - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC
1990 - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
1990 - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 - A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 - Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
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.
1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern 1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1997 - Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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.
2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.
2007 - The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
1431 - In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France. 1732 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened. 1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States. 1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States. 1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States. 1889 - The first of 554 performances of "The Gondoliers" took place. 1907 - At London's National Sporting Club, Eugene Corri became the first referee to officiate from inside a boxing ring. 1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies. 1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation. 1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II. 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta killed 119 people. It was America's worst hotel fire disaster. The hotel founder, W. Frank Winecoff, was also killed in the fire. 1971 - Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets. 1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission. 1972 - Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant. The man was then shot and killed by her bodyguards. 1974 - President Makarios returned to Cyprus after five months in exile. 1980 - General Antonio Ramlho Eanes was reelected president of Portugal. His right-wing opposition was thrown into disarray by the death of Premier Francisco Sa Carneiro in a plane crash. 1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX. 1983 - Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff. The collision resulted in the death of all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 on the Iberia jet. 1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan. 1987 - 43 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a fellow passenger and the two pilots aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner. 1988 - An estimated 25,000 people were killed when a major earthquake hit northern Armenia in the Soviet Union. The quake measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. 1988 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the reduction of the number of Soviet military troops by half a million. 1989 - East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution. 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies. 1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train. 1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site. 1993 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the U.S. government study the impact of drug legalization. 1995 - A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed. 1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes. 1998 - The U.N. evacuated 14 peacekeepers that were trapped by fighting between army and rebel forces in central Angola. 1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing. 1999 - A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a former convict in the 1995 disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair. 2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each. 2002 - In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movies theaters were bombed within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed and over 200 were injured. 2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1917 The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I. 1941 The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 1972 America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral. 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation. 1988 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000. 2001 Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan. 2002 Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction. 2004 Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/dec07.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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