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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/574" title="574">574</a> – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor <span class="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_II" title="Justin II">Justin II</a></span> had his general <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_II_Constantine" title="Tiberius II Constantine">Tiberius</a></b> proclaimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" title="Caesar (title)">Caesar</a>, adopting him as his own son.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove" title="Battle of Prairie Grove">Battle of Prairie Grove</a></b> ended a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> attempt to regain control of northwestern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a> – Australian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricketer</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fingleton" title="Jack Fingleton">Jack Fingleton</a></b> became the first player to score <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_(cricket)" title="Century (cricket)">centuries</a> in four consecutive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test</a> innings.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – The Indonesian military <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor" title="Indonesian invasion of East Timor">invaded East Timor</a></b> under the pretext of anti-colonialism, beginning <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor" title="Indonesian occupation of East Timor">an occupation</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)"><i>Galileo</i> spacecraft</a></b> <i>(illustration shown)</i> arrived at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, a little more than six years after it was launched by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis">Space Shuttle <i>Atlantis</i></a> during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-34" title="STS-34">Mission STS-34</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_al-Sufi" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi">Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 903); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather" title="Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1873); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hoult" title="Nicholas Hoult">Nicholas Hoult</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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