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December 7, Today in History

 
Carshy McCarsh
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12/07/2012 10:35 AM
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December 7, Today in History
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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Carshy McCarsh  (OP)

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12/07/2012 02:00 PM
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Re: December 7, Today in History
OK, obviously not doomy enough.

Here, try this:

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Last Edited by Carshy McCarsh on 12/07/2012 02:00 PM
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