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December 7, Today in History
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Not a complete list, but some of the events I find most interesting and represent echoes of historical patterns I am half-way expecting to repeat...
43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1995 - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
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