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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_7" title="December 7">December 7</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose">Saint Ambrose</a></b> (Christianity); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pearl_Harbor_Remembrance_Day" title="National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day">National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day</a></b> in the United States (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_BC" title="43 BC">43 BC</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a></b>, widely considered one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">ancient Rome</a>'s greatest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">orators</a> and prose stylists, was killed after having been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscription" title="Proscription">proscribed</a> as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_state" title="Enemy of the state">enemy of the state</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837" title="1837">1837</a> – British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie" title="William Lyon Mackenzie">William Lyon Mackenzie</a></b> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Van_Egmond" title="Anthony Van Egmond">Anthony Van Egmond</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montgomery%27s_Tavern" title="Battle of Montgomery's Tavern">Battle of Montgomery's Tavern</a>, the only major confrontation of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Canada_Rebellion" title="Upper Canada Rebellion">Upper Canada Rebellion</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – A <span class="nowrap">6.8 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-wave_magnitude" title="Surface-wave magnitude">M<sub>s</sub></a></span> earthquake <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Armenian_earthquake" title="1988 Armenian earthquake">struck</a></b> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitak" title="Spitak">Spitak</a> region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a> – The United States transferred its last base in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Anbar_Governorate" title="Al Anbar Governorate">Al Anbar Governorate</a> to the Iraqi government, ending the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbar_campaign_(2003%E2%80%932011)" title="Anbar campaign (2003–2011)">Anbar campaign</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Saunders_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)">Charles Saunders</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1775); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Fish_III" title="Hamilton Fish III">Hamilton <span class="nowrap">Fish III</span></a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1888); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1928); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Howard_(artist)" title="Barbara Howard (artist)">Barbara Howard</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2002)</p>
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