Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7

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 * 574 – Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor Justin II had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.


 * 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.
 * 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
 * 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
 * 1972 – Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann and Ludwig Stumpfegger near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after Bormann's conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.
 * 1975 – The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism, beginning an occupation.
 * 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft (illustration shown) arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
 * 2005 – Spanish authorities captured Croatian Army general Ante Gotovina, who was wanted for war crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence; he was eventually cleared of all charges.
 * 2015 – The JAXA space probe Akatsuki (illustration shown) entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.


 * Born/died this day: | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi |b|903| Charles Garnier |d|1649| Richard Bellingham |d|1672|Theodor Schwann |b|1810| Joseph Cook |b|1860| Willa Cather |b|1873|  Martha Layne Collins |b|1936| Nicholas Hoult |b|1989 Jeane Kirkpatrick |d|2006

December 7: Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity); National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States (1941)


 * 43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of ancient Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.
 * 1837 – British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.


 * 1988 – A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
 * 2011 – The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.