Dropped by Alison’s blog just long enough to spot that she’d done this, read the first one without meaning to and ran away to do my own 🙂 December 7th, in case you weren’t sure.
Events.
- 1917 – World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1941 – World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
- 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
Birthdays
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1966 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor
Death.
43 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
Holiday/ observance
Colombia – DÃa de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity
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