374 The Consular Magistrate Ambrose was consecrated Bishop of Milan on December 7, 374, despite having had no theological training or even having been baptized. Ambrose became the most distinguished Ecclesiastic in Italy. After reluctantly accepting the decision he was baptized, ordained and consecrated within a week before proceeding to give away his property to the poor. His feast day is celebrated on December 7, the date of his ordination.
521 Saint Columba was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Cenel Conaill in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, in modern County Donegal, in Ireland on December 7, 521. The Apostle to the Picts left his homeland in 563 in his small rowing boat with twelve companions in order to evangelize the northern tribes in Britain. He is credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland.
1669 Christopher Wren's appointment as Surveyor of the King's Works persuaded him that he could finally afford to take a wife. On December 7, 1669 the 37-year-old Wren married his childhood playmate, the 33-year-old Faith Coghill at London's Temple Church. Faith bore him two children, Christopher and Gilbert, but she died of smallpox on September 3, 1675.
1703 The Great Storm of 1703 made landfall in southern England on December 7, 1703 killing an estimated 9,000 people. The wind gusts of up to 120 mph also blew ships hundreds of miles and over 1,000 seamen died on the Goodwin Sands alone. Daniel Defoe believed the hurricane was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1817 English admiral William Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame died in Bond Street, London on December 7, 1817. His tomb is topped with a breadfruit. Years after being cast adrift from the Bounty, Captain Bligh was made Governor of New South Wales with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps. Bligh's actions directed against the trade resulted in the so-called Rum Rebellion, during which he was again deposed in a mutiny.
1863 Richard W Sears, co-founder of Sears, was born on December 7, 1863. One of the oldest operating retail operations in America. began by accident in 1886 when railroad station agent Richard W. Sears received a box of watches by mistake. He began selling the timepieces to his colleagues in Redwood Falls, Minnesota before branching out into mail order catalogs.
1869 The outlaw Jesse James first became famous on December 7, 1869, when he and his brother Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. The robbery netted little money, but the daring escape he and his brother made through the middle of a posse shortly afterward, put his name in the newspapers for the first time.
1930 The first television commercial was broadcast on December 7, 1930 when W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasted video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. It was an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
1941 Oahu (the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands) was the target of a surprise attack by Imperial Japan on December 7, 1941. The Japanese aircraft struck the US Pacific Fleet as it lay in port in Pearl Harbor. The attack on the island's Pearl Harbor and other military and naval installations brought the United States into World War II.
1947 English author Anne Fine was born on December 7, 1947. Fine started writing novels in 1971 when, at home with her first baby, a snowstorm stopped her going to the local library. She is best known for her 1987 satirical novel Madame Doubtfire, which Twentieth Century Fox filmed as Mrs. Doubtfire,
1950 Shirley Temple divorced her first husband, John Agar on December 7, 1950 after five years of marriage. Temple met her second husband, Charles Black, a San Francisco businessman in Honolulu and they married a week after her divorce on December 16, 1950.
1963 Instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during Army v Navy Football Game at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia on December 7, 1963. When CBS re-played a one-yard touchdown run by Army quarterback Rollie Stichweh, the station's switchboard was inundated with calls from confused viewers asking if the player had scored a second time.
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| Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts |
1669 Christopher Wren's appointment as Surveyor of the King's Works persuaded him that he could finally afford to take a wife. On December 7, 1669 the 37-year-old Wren married his childhood playmate, the 33-year-old Faith Coghill at London's Temple Church. Faith bore him two children, Christopher and Gilbert, but she died of smallpox on September 3, 1675.
1817 English admiral William Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame died in Bond Street, London on December 7, 1817. His tomb is topped with a breadfruit. Years after being cast adrift from the Bounty, Captain Bligh was made Governor of New South Wales with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps. Bligh's actions directed against the trade resulted in the so-called Rum Rebellion, during which he was again deposed in a mutiny.
1863 Richard W Sears, co-founder of Sears, was born on December 7, 1863. One of the oldest operating retail operations in America. began by accident in 1886 when railroad station agent Richard W. Sears received a box of watches by mistake. He began selling the timepieces to his colleagues in Redwood Falls, Minnesota before branching out into mail order catalogs.
1869 The outlaw Jesse James first became famous on December 7, 1869, when he and his brother Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. The robbery netted little money, but the daring escape he and his brother made through the middle of a posse shortly afterward, put his name in the newspapers for the first time.
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| Jesse James portrait |
1930 The first television commercial was broadcast on December 7, 1930 when W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasted video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. It was an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
1941 Oahu (the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands) was the target of a surprise attack by Imperial Japan on December 7, 1941. The Japanese aircraft struck the US Pacific Fleet as it lay in port in Pearl Harbor. The attack on the island's Pearl Harbor and other military and naval installations brought the United States into World War II.
1947 English author Anne Fine was born on December 7, 1947. Fine started writing novels in 1971 when, at home with her first baby, a snowstorm stopped her going to the local library. She is best known for her 1987 satirical novel Madame Doubtfire, which Twentieth Century Fox filmed as Mrs. Doubtfire,
1950 Shirley Temple divorced her first husband, John Agar on December 7, 1950 after five years of marriage. Temple met her second husband, Charles Black, a San Francisco businessman in Honolulu and they married a week after her divorce on December 16, 1950.
1963 Instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during Army v Navy Football Game at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia on December 7, 1963. When CBS re-played a one-yard touchdown run by Army quarterback Rollie Stichweh, the station's switchboard was inundated with calls from confused viewers asking if the player had scored a second time.
1969 The Rolling Stones were criticized for high ticket prices on their 1969 US tour so they decided to hold a free concert. The festival was organized by the Grateful Dead and took place at the Altamont Speedway on December 7, 1969. It was a disaster, four young men died violently. and it signaled the end of the hippie movement.
1972 The Apollo 17 astronauts took the photograph of the Earth known as The Blue Marble on December 7, 1972. The photograph shows Earth fully illuminated, with the continents and oceans visible, and it became one of the most iconic images of our planet from space. The name "Blue Marble" reflects the way Earth looks like a beautiful blue sphere against the darkness of space in the photograph.
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| The Blue Marble—Earth as seen by Apollo 17 in 1972 |
1975 In late 1975, the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Timor declared its independence but on December 7 of that year it was invaded and occupied by Indonesia. It was declared Indonesia's twenty seventh province the following year. In 1999, following the United Nations-sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory and it became a sovereign state, known as East Timor, three years later.
1988 An earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia on December 7, 1988. The quake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, devastated the country killing more than 25,000, injuring 30,000 and leaving 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
1996 The longest orbital flight of the Space Shuttle was STS-80, a mission flown by Columbia. It lasted at 17 days 15 hours between November 19, 1996 and December 7, 1996. The mission went beyond its planned after bad weather prevented landing for two days.
1998 The initial spacewalk to begin the assembly of the International Space Station was held on December 7, 1998, following the launch of the first section of the station, Zarya, from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on November 20, 1998. The spacewalk attached the U.S.-built Unity node to Zarya.
2000 Article 4 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union proclaimed on December 7, 2000 by the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Commission prohibits torture.
2011 30 Seconds to Mars earned themselves a place in the Guinness Book Of Records with their gig at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on December 7, 2011. It was their 300th concert in support of their This Is War longplayer breaking the world record for most shows performed during a single album cycle.
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