It happened on this day, December 7
Events:
637 – Jalawla, the last bastion of the Persians, is conquered, following a major battle opposing them to the Muslims led by Hashim bin Utba.
1830 – The French governor general in Algeria, Dubomont, promulgates a law granting the right to dispose of religious property.
1877 – Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, a machine capable of recording and rebroadcast recorded sounds.
1912 – The discovery of a statue of the pharaonic queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, in the Tel Amarna district of Minya, southern Egypt.
1919 – Arrival of the “Milner Commission” in Egypt, whose aim is to investigate the causes of the outbreak of the revolution, known as the 1919 Revolution.
1934 – Kuwait was exposed to heavy rains which led to the demolition of a large number of houses and the destruction of 18,000 people. This year has been known as the year of destruction.
1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy launches an attack on the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, resulting in the destruction of the entire U.S. fleet.
1949 – Republic of China Prime Minister Chiang Kai-shek announces the choice of Taipei, on the island of Taiwan, as the country's temporary capital, after he and his government flee Nanjing for Taiwan.
1953 – Publication of the first issue of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Gomhouria.
1972 – Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, was the victim of a botched assassination that resulted in her being stabbed in the body.
1976 – United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim wins a second term to serve as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1988 – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recognizes Israel's right to exist for the first time.
2004 – Hamid Karzai is sworn in as president of Afghanistan after winning the first presidential election.
💥 Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attack on US consulate in Jeddah.
2011 – Yemeni interim President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi issues a decree forming a national unity government led by opposition leader Muhammad Basindwa, in accordance with the provisions of the Gulf Initiative aimed at resolving the Yemeni crisis.
💥 The government of Kamal Al-Ganzouri is sworn in before Marshal Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issues a decree authorizing Prime Minister Kamal Al-Ganzouri to exercise the powers granted to the President of the Republic under the laws. and regulations, with the exception of the powers of the President of the Republic provided for by the laws on the armed forces and the judicial bodies.
💥 Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly ratifies the interim constitution, which regulates authorities and opens the door to the election of an interim president of the country.
2016 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661 crashed, killing all 47 people on board.
💥 97 people have died and at least 1,270 others have been injured following an earthquake that struck Indonesia's northwest province of Aceh.
2017 – Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Ballon d'Or awarded by France Football magazine for the year 2017.
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Births:
521 – Columba, Irish saint.
903 – Abd al-Rahman bin Omar al-Sufi, Persian Muslim engineer and astronomer.
1545 – Henry Stuart, husband of Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland.
1598 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist.
1810 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist.
1823 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician.
1861 – Nikolai Androsov, paleontologist, explorer and geologist of the Russian Empire.
1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/American astronomer.
1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor.
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American writer.
1933 – Karam Motawa, Egyptian actor and director.
1936 – Nader Golgin, Iranian singer.
1943 – Frantisek Vesely, Czechoslovak footballer.
1953 – Mahmoud Hemida, Egyptian actor.
1956 – Iveta Radikova, Prime Minister of Slovakia.
1965 – Jeffrey Wright, American actor.
1966 – Abdel Karim Joudeh, Lebanese diplomat.
1967 – Abdulaziz Al-Shayji, Kuwaiti engineer and politician.
1968 – Asra Dermancloglu, Turkish actress.
1971 – Yoshihisa Hirano, Japanese composer.
1976 – Basma, Egyptian actress.
1979 – Lambouros Chotos, Greek footballer.
1980 – John Terry, English footballer.
1983 – Fagé Bandar, Kuwaiti footballer.
1984 – Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer.
** Robert Kubica, Polish racing driver.
1985- Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler.
1986 – Reem Arhama, Bahraini actress.
1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer.
1988 – Emily Browning, Australian actress.
**Nathan Adrian, American swimmer.
1989 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor.
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Death:
43 BC. – Cicero, Roman philosopher.
328 – Imru' al-Qais, the king of al-Hira.
1254 – Pope Innocent IV, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1295 – Gilbert de Clare, English nobleman.
1906 – Elie Deukman, Swiss journalist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902.
1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American academic and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
1989 – Seif Allah Mukhtar, Egyptian actor.
1993 – Wolfgang Powell, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.
1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1994.
2012 – Ammar Al-Sherayi, Egyptian musician.
2014 – Abdullah Baha, Moroccan Minister of State.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ World Civil Aviation Day.
⏪ Independence Day in Ivory Coast.
⏪ Candlelight day in Colombia.
⏪ The beginning of Dashō in Japan.
