December 7: Day of the Little Candles in Colombia; Armed Forces Flag Day in India; Pearl Harbor Day in the United States
Jesse James
- 1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon.
- 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James (pictured) committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
- 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- 1946 – The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history happened at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1988 – A 6.9 Mw earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.
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