December 7 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Civil Aviation Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Ukrainian Headscarf Day.
🇷🇺 Russia, St. Petersburg – Hermitage Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Finance Workers’ Day.
🇮🇳 India – Armed Forces Flag Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Local Self-Government Day
🇹🇱 East Timor – Memorial Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Students’ Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – 1988 Spitak Earthquake Remembrance Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia by order of Mark Antony.
– 1678 – Louis Enpin became the first European to discover Niagara Falls.
– 1703 – The Great Storm in England, the largest storm ever recorded in southern Britain. Winds reached 120 mph, killing an estimated 10,000 people and sinking 100 ships.
– 1724 – The Toruń Massacre: the execution of Protestant officials led by the local mayor by Polish authorities following religious unrest in the city.
– 1732 – The Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, opens in London.
– 1769 – Empress Catherine II of Russia establishes the Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George.
– 1918 – The first session of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is held.
– 1941 – World War II: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The United States enters the war.
– 1944 – The Convention on International Civil Aviation was signed.
– 1949 – The capital of China moved from Nanjing to Taipei.
– 1972 – The Apollo 17 spacecraft managed to take a picture of The Blue Marble.
– 1975 – Indonesia invaded East Timor.
– 1982 – The first execution by lethal injection was carried out in Texas.
– 1984 – The Tashkent metro stations “Alisher Navoi”, “Uzbekistan” and “Tashkent” were put into operation.
– 1988 – A terrible earthquake occurred in Armenia. 25,000 victims.
– 1988 – China launched the “Long March” carrier rocket into space.
