On this day: December 7th

On this day: December 7th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: December 7th

43 B.C.: Cicero (Marcus Tullius) died. He was a writer, statesman, and was considered ancient Rome’s greatest orator.
1732: Royal Opera House opens its doors. The popular performing arts venue in Covent Garden, London, houses the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet.
1787: Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1941: Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese Navy. This causes the US to enter WWII.
1982: December Murders in Suriname. Fifteen prominent Surinamese men were kidnapped and subsequently murdered over 3 days by the military government. The men were known to have criticized the military dictatorship.
1988: Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

1995: The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched
2004: Hamid Karzai takes office. The Afghan politician took office as the President of the Islamic Republic in Afghanistan’s first direct democratic elections in history.

1761: Wax modeler Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) was born in Bern, Switzerland. She established Madame Tussaud’s waxworks in London in 1802 and later added a Chamber of Horrors.
1928: Noam Chomsky (American linguist, philosopher)
1947: Johnny Bench (Baseball Player)
1949: Tom Waits (American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor)
1956: Larry Bird (Basketball Player)
1966: C. Thomas Howell (Actor)
1973: Terrell Owens (Football Player)
1980: John Terry (English footballer)
1984: Robert Kubica (Polish race car driver)
1987: Aaron Carter (Singer)
1988: Emily Browning (Actress)

983: Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (Swiss businessman, politician)
1817: William Bligh (English Admiral, statesman, 4th Governor of New South Wales)
1917: Ludwig Minkus (Austrian violinist, composer)
1985: Robert Graves (English author)
1993: Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Ivorian politician, 1st President of Côte d’Ivoire)

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