Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7

December 7:

Covent Garden Theatre before 1808

• 1732 - The Royal Opera House (original theatre pictured) opened at Covent Garden in London.

• 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.

• 1941 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.

• 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China relocated from Mainland China to Taipei on the island of Taiwan.

• 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

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• November 30
• December 1
• December 2