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Line 1: − + − <div id="mp-topbanner" class="mp-bordered">+ − <div id="mp-welcomecount">+ − <div id="mp-welcome">Welcome to [[Wikipedia]],</div>+ − <div id="mp-free">the [[free content|free]] [[encyclopedia]] that [[Help:Introduction to Wikipedia|anyone can edit]].</div>+ − <div id="articlecount">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in [[English language|English]]</div>+ − </div>+ − <ul id="mp-portals">+ − <li>[[Portal:The arts|The arts]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-vmid">[[Portal:Biography|Biography]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-vbot">[[Portal:Geography|Geography]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-hmid">[[Portal:History|History]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-hmid portal-vmid">[[Portal:Mathematics|Mathematics]]</li>+ − + − <li class="portal-hright">[[Portal:Society|Society]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-hright portal-vmid">[[Portal:Technology|Technology]]</li>+ − <li class="portal-hright portal-vbot">[[Wikipedia:Contents/Portals|All portals]]</li>+ − </ul>+ − </div>+ − {{#if:{{Main Page banner}}|+ − <div id="mp-banner" class="MainPageBG mp-bordered">+ − {{Main Page banner}}+ − </div>+ − }}+ − {| role="presentation" id="mp-upper"+ − + − + − <div id="mp-tfa">{{#ifexpr:{{formatnum:{{PAGESIZE:Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}|R}}>150|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y|-1 day}}}}}}</div>+ − <h2 id="mp-dyk-h2" class="mp-h2">Did you know ...</h2>+ − <div id="mp-dyk">{{Did you know}}</div>+ − + − + − <h2 id="mp-itn-h2" class="mp-h2">In the news</h2>+ − <div id="mp-itn">{{In the news}}</div>+ − <h2 id="mp-otd-h2" class="mp-h2">On this day</h2>+ − <div id="mp-otd">{{Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/{{#time:F j}}}}</div>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + − + − + − + − + − + − + − + − + − <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">{{#ifexist:Template:POTD protected/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|Today's featured picture|Featured picture <span class="mp-later">(Check back later for today's.)</span>}}</h2>+ − <div id="mp-tfp">{{#ifexist:Template:POTD protected/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|{{POTD protected/{{#time:Y-m-d}}}}|{{POTD protected/{{#time:Y-m-d|-1 day}}}}}}</div>+ − </div>+ + + + + + + − <div id="mp-other-lower" class="mp-bordered">+ − <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia</h2>+ − <div id="mp-other-content">{{Other areas of Wikipedia}}</div>+ − <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects</h2>+ − <div id="mp-sister-content">{{Wikipedia's sister projects}}</div>+ − <h2 id="mp-lang" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia languages</h2>+ − <div>{{Wikipedia languages}}</div>+ − </div><noinclude>{{Main Page interwikis}}{{noexternallanglinks}}{{#if:{{Wikipedia:Main_Page/Tomorrow}}||}}</noinclude>__NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
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File:Carrier shokaku.jpg|Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from the aircraft carrier Shōkaku.
File:USS West Virginia2.jpg|West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
File:Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view.jpg|Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
File:Jesse james portrait.jpg|Jesse James
File:Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg|Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|"The Blue Marble"
File:HMS Spiteful under way.jpg|HMS ''Spiteful''
File:Cicero - Musei Capitolini.JPG|Bust of Cicero
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|''Akatsuki''
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| '''[[Day of the Little Candles]]''' in Colombia;
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| '''[[Armed Forces Flag Day]]''' in India;
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| [[1724]] – In [[Toruń]], [[Royal Prussia]], Polish authorities '''[[Tumult of Thorn (Toruń)|executed]]''' the city's mayor and nine other [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
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| [[1787]] – '''[[Delaware]]''' became [[List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union|the first U.S. state]] to ratify the [[Constitution of the United States|United States Constitution]].
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| [[1815]] – '''[[Michel Ney]]''', [[Marshal of France]], was executed by a firing squad near Paris' [[Jardin du Luxembourg]] for supporting [[Napoleon]].
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| [[1904]] – Comparative trials began between '''{{HMS|Spiteful|1899|6}}'''<!--[[HMS Spiteful (1899)]]--><!-- ''(pictured)''-->, the first [[warship]] powered solely by [[fuel oil]], and a similar [[Royal Navy]] ship burning coal.
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| [[1941]] – [[World War II]]: The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] '''[[Attack on Pearl Harbor|made a surprise attack]]''' on [[Pearl Harbor]] in [[Territory of Hawaii|Hawaii]], intending to neutralize the [[United States Pacific Fleet]] from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in [[Southeast Asia]].
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| [[1946]] – The '''[[Winecoff Hotel fire|deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history]]''' happened at the [[Winecoff Hotel]] in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]].
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| [[1949]] – [[Chinese Civil War]]: The government of the Republic of China relocated from [[Mainland China]] to '''[[Taipei]]'''<!-- ''([[Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall]] pictured)''--> on the island of Taiwan.
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| [[1965]] – '''[[East–West Schism]]''': [[Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople]] and [[Pope Paul VI]] issued [[Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965|a declaration]]<!--not bold, stub-->, simultaneously lifted mutual [[excommunication]]s that had been in place since 1054.
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| [[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]].
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| [[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.
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* [[43 BC]] – '''[[Cicero]]'''<!-- ''(bust pictured)''-->, widely considered one of [[ancient Rome]]'s greatest [[Rhetoric|orators]] and prose stylists, was killed after having been [[Proscription|proscribed]] as an [[enemy of the state]].
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* [[1837]] – British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by [[William Lyon Mackenzie]] and [[Anthony Van Egmond]] at the '''[[Battle of Montgomery's Tavern]]''', the only major confrontation of the '''[[Upper Canada Rebellion]]'''.
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* [[1869]] – American outlaw '''[[Jesse James]]''' committed his first confirmed bank robbery in [[Gallatin, Missouri]].
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* [[1942]] – [[World War II|Second World War]]: A small unit of [[Royal Marines]] launched '''[[Operation Frankton]]''', in which they damaged six ships in the port of [[Bordeaux]] in [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German-occupied France]].
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* [[1972]] – Construction workers found the remains of '''[[Martin Bormann]]''' and '''[[Ludwig Stumpfegger]]''' near [[Berlin Hauptbahnhof|Lehrter Station]] in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after Bormann's conviction ''[[Trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' at the [[Nuremberg trials]].
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* [[1988]] – A {{nowrap|6.8 [[Surface-wave magnitude|M<sub>s</sub>]]}} earthquake '''[[1988 Armenian earthquake|struck]]''' the [[Spitak]] region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.
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* [[1993]] – A passenger '''[[1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting|murdered]]''' six people and injured nineteen others on the [[Long Island Rail Road]] in [[Garden City, New York]].
* [[2005]] – Spanish authorities captured [[Croatian Army]] general '''[[Ante Gotovina]]''', who was wanted for [[war crime]]s committed during the [[Croatian War of Independence]]; he was eventually cleared of all charges.
* [[2007]] – A [[Crane vessel|crane barge]] that had broken free from a [[tugboat]] crashed into an [[oil tanker]] near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's '''[[2007 South Korea oil spill|worst-ever oil spill]]'''.
* [[2015]] – The [[JAXA]] space probe '''''[[Akatsuki (spacecraft)|Akatsuki]]'''''<!-- ''(illustration shown)''--> entered into orbit around Venus to study [[Atmosphere of Venus|the planet's atmosphere]], five years after its first attempt failed.
* Born/died this day: | '''[[Charles Garnier (missionary)|Charles Garnier]]'''<!--French Canadian--> |d|1649| '''[[Richard Bellingham]]'''<!--American colonist--> |d|1672| '''[[Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Saunders]]'''<!--English admiral--> |d|1775| '''[[Theodor Schwann]]'''<!--German physician--> |b|1810| '''[[Joseph Cook]]'''<!--Australian prime minister--> |b|1860| '''[[Hamilton Fish III|Hamilton {{nowrap|Fish III}}]]'''<!--American politician--> |b|1888| '''[[Noam Chomsky]]'''<!--American linguist--> |b|1928| '''[[Martha Layne Collins]]'''<!--American politician--> |b|1936| '''[[Nicholas Hoult]]'''<!--English actor--> |b|1989| '''[[Barbara Howard (artist)|Barbara Howard]]'''<!--Canadian painter--> |d|2002| '''[[Jeane Kirkpatrick]]'''<!--American diplomat--> |d|2006
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'''[[December 7]]''': [[Calendar of saints|Feast day]] of '''[[Ambrose|Saint Ambrose]]''' (Christianity); '''[[National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day]]''' in the United States ([[1941]])
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* [[574]] – Suffering from mental illness, Roman emperor [[Justin II|{{nowrap|Justin II}}]] had his general '''[[Tiberius II Constantine|Tiberius]]''' proclaimed [[Caesar (title)|Caesar]], adopting him as his own son.
* [[1862]] - [[American Civil War]]: The '''[[Battle of Prairie Grove]]''' ended a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] attempt to regain control of northwestern [[Arkansas]].
* [[1936]] – Australian [[cricket]]er '''[[Jack Fingleton]]''' became the first player to score [[Century (cricket)|centuries]] in four consecutive [[Test cricket|Test]] innings.
* [[1975]] – The Indonesian military '''[[Indonesian invasion of East Timor|invaded East Timor]]''' under the pretext of anti-colonialism, beginning '''[[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|an occupation]]'''.
* [[1995]] – The '''''[[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo spacecraft]]''''' ''(illustration shown)'' arrived at [[Jupiter]], a little more than six years after it was launched by [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] during [[STS-34|Mission STS-34]].
{{Born and died list| '''[[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]]'''<!--Persian astronomer--> |b|903| '''[[Willa Cather]]'''<!--American writer--> |b|1873| '''[[Robert Graves]]'''<!--English poet--> |d|1985}}
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