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This is a list of selected December 7 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Day of the Little Candles in Colombia; unreferenced section
Armed Forces Flag Day in India; lots of citations needed
1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics. lots of CN tags (5) for length
1787Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution. refimprove section
1815Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon. lots of CN tags (10)
1904 – Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful, the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal. date not in article
1941World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. lots of CN tags (12)
1946 – The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history happened at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. refimprove section
1949Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan. cleanup list
1965East–West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI issued a declaration, simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. summarize section, refimprove section
1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble", the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon. refimprove section
1987 – A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors. refimprove section
1993 – A passenger murdered six people and injured nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York. Orange banner for more citations
2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill. Yellow bare urls banner

Eligible

  • 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.

December 7: Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity); National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States (1941)

A church after the 1988 Armenian earthquake
A church after the 1988 Armenian earthquake
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