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43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
574 Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne in favor of his general Tiberius, proclaiming him Caesar.
1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1724 Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
1936 Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1963 Instant replay makes its debut during an American ArmyNavy football game.
1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1972 Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt using a bolo knife against her.
1971 Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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.
1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion begins.
1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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 MadridBarajas Airport, killing 93 people.
1987 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 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 himself.
1988 Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1993 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
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.
1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
2003 The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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.
2005 Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Amιricas, Tenerife, by Spanish police.
2006 A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
2007 The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.
Events:C/P.
43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
574 Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne in favor of his general Tiberius, proclaiming him Caesar.
1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1724 Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
1936 Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1963 Instant replay makes its debut during an American ArmyNavy football game.
1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1972 Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt using a bolo knife against her.
1971 Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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.
1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion begins.
1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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 MadridBarajas Airport, killing 93 people.
1987 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 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 himself.
1988 Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1993 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
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.
1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
2003 The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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.
2005 Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Amιricas, Tenerife, by Spanish police.
2006 A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
2007 The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.