7 December
Notable Births
Torri Huske
b. 2002
American swimmer (born 2002)
Dane Belton
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Boo Buie
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Pavol Regenda
b. 1999
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1999)
Tony Yike Yang
b. 1998
Canadian-Chinese pianist (born 1998)
Abi Harrison
b. 1997
Scottish footballer
Tommy Nelson (actor)
b. 1997
American actor (born 1997)
Pete Alonso
b. 1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Yuzuru Hanyu
b. 1994
Japanese figure skater (born 1994)
Hunter Henry
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Rahama Sadau
b. 1993
Nigerian actress, filmmaker and singer (born 1993)
Alex Singleton (linebacker)
b. 1993
American gridiron football player (born 1993)
Sean Couturier
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Eugenio Pisani
b. 1991
Italian auto racing driver from Ravenna (born 1991)
Chris Wood (footballer, born 1991)
b. 1991
New Zealand footballer
Cameron Bairstow
b. 1990
Australian basketball player (born 1990)
David Goffin
b. 1990
Belgian tennis player (born 1990)
Aleksandr Menkov
b. 1990
Russian long jumper (born 1990)
Yasiel Puig
b. 1990
Cuban-American baseball player (born 1990)
Urszula Radwańska
b. 1990
Polish tennis player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Benjamin Zephaniah
d. 2023
British poet and author (1958–2023)
Refaat Alareer
d. 2023
Palestinian writer and professor (1979–2023)
Emiko Miyamoto
d. 2023
Japanese volleyball player (1937–2023)
Dick Allen
d. 2020
American baseball player (1942–2020)
Chuck Yeager
d. 2020
American flying ace and test pilot (1923–2020)
Remilia
d. 2019
American professional gamer (1995–2019)
Ron Saunders
d. 2019
English footballer and manager (1932–2019)
Steve Reevis
d. 2017
Blackfeet actor (1962-2017)
Junaid Jamshed
d. 2016
Pakistani Islamic preacher and singer-songwriter (1964–2016)
Greg Lake
d. 2016
English musician (1947–2016)
Peter Westbury
d. 2015
British racing driver (1938–2015)
Édouard Molinaro
d. 2013
French film director and screenwriter
Chick Willis
d. 2013
American blues singer and guitarist
Roelof Kruisinga
d. 2012
Dutch politician (1922–2012)
Ralph Parr
d. 2012
American double-flying ace of the Korean War
Marty Reisman
d. 2012
American table tennis player (1930–2012)
Saul Steinberg (businessman)
d. 2012
American businessman and financier (1939–2012)
Harry Morgan
d. 2011
American actor (1915–2011)
Elizabeth Edwards
d. 2010
American attorney (1949–2010)
Kari Tapio
d. 2010
Finnish singer (1945–2010)
On This Day in History
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2025
British racing driver Lando Norris wins the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren.
Lando Norris
2025
An attempted coup takes place in Benin, but is thwarted, and order restored.
2025 Beninese coup attempt
2024
Battle of Damascus (2024): Syrian opposition forces enter the Rif Dimashq Governorate, reaching within 20 km of the capital Damascus.
Fall of Damascus (2024)
2017
Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison kills two students at his former high school.
2017 Aztec High School shooting
2016
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661
2015
The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
JAXA
2014
The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest is targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.
Furry convention
2005
Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
Killing of Rigoberto Alpizar
2003
The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Conservative Party of Canada
1995
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Galileo (spacecraft)
1995
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949
1995
An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
Air Caraïbes
1993
Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
Long Island Rail Road shooting
1988
The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
1988 Armenian earthquake
1987
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771
1983
An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
Iberia (airline)
1982
In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
Texas
1982
The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.
Senior Road Tower
1972
Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
Apollo 17
1971
The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Indian Army.
Battle of Sylhet