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7 December - On This Day



Armed Forces Flag Day in India

Pearl Harbor Day in the United States

43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.

1904 – Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful (pictured), the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal.

1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

1988 – A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.

1993 – A passenger murdered six people and injured nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York.

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