Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7
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This is a list of selected December 7 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1724 – Tumult of Thorn (Toruń): Polish authorities executed the Mayor of Toruń, Royal Prussia and nine other Lutheran citizens following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
- 1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii (pictured).
- 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan.
- 1988 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.2 struck the Spitak region of Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, killing at least 50,000 people.
- 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
More events: December 6 – December 7 – December 8
