️ Today's History : 07 December 2021 ️
Important events of 07 December✨
️1732 - The Theater Royal Covent Garden, London (modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened.
️1815 - Marshal Ney is executed near the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.
️1825 - The first steam-powered ship 'Enterprise' reached Kolkata.
️1835 - The future U.S. President James K. Pollock became Speaker of the House.
️1856 - For the first time in the country, 'Hindu Widow' was officially married.
️1869 - American robber Jesse James commits his first bank robbery in Galatin Missouri.
️1877 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated the 'gramophone'.
️1888 - John Boyd Dunlop invented the air bicycle tyre.
️1889 - The first car in the present form in the world was made by a German scientist, Karl Friedrich Benz. The speed of this vehicle was 12 kilometers per hour and petrol or alcohol was used as fuel. Present-day buses are the complete form of that train.
️1895 - Battle of Amba Algi: Abyssinians defeat Italian forces.
️1941 - Japanese planes attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing 2043.
️1944 - General Radescu forms the government in Romania.
️1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States, kills 119 people.
️1949 - Indian Armed Forces Flag Day / Flag Day is celebrated from 7 December 1949.
️1970 - Relations between West Germany and Poland normalize.
️1972 - America launched Apollo 17 as part of its mission to the Moon.
️1983 - 93 killed when two jets collide at Madrid airport.
️1988 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Armenia kills 25,000 people, leaving millions homeless.
️1995 - The South Asia Preference Trade Agreement (SAPTA) came into force.
️1995 - India launched the communication satellite INSAT-2C.
️2001 - Taliban lay down arms in Kandahar, Wickremesinghe appointed as new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
️2002 - Turkey's Azra Anin became Miss World 2002.
️2002 - Separatist violence in Kashmir kills 14 people, including eight Muslim insurgents.
️2003 - Raman Singh took over as the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
️2004 - Hamid Karzai is sworn in as the first elected President of Afghanistan.
️2007 - The much-anticipated flight of Atlantis carrying Europe's Columber Laboratory to the International Space Station postponed due to technical reasons.
️2008 - Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh won the Japan Tour title.
️2009 - Climate summit begins in Copenhagen, Denmark.
️2019 - Indian Railways provided free Wi-Fi facility at 5500 stations in the country.
️2020 - Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Geeta Mittal launched the legal services program - Insaaf Ki Dastak.
️2020 - The 16th round of meeting between the Foreign Offices of India and Israel was held via video conference.
️2020 - The United Nations Trade and Development Conference - UNCTAD (UNCTAD) has given the Investment Promotion Award for the year 2020 to Invest India.
