- 1732 - The Royal Opera House opened at Covent Garden in London, England.
- 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near the Luxembourg Garden in Paris for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1941 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.
- 1965 - East-West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (pictured, left) and Pope Paul VI (right) issued the Catholic- Orthodox joint declaration and simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
- 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.
Recent days: December 6 – December 5 – December 4
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- 1732 - The Royal Opera House opened at Covent Garden in London, England.
- 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near the Luxembourg Garden in Paris for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1941 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.
- 1965 - East-West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (pictured, left) and Pope Paul VI (right) issued the Catholic- Orthodox joint declaration and simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
- 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.
Recent days: December 6 – December 5 – December 4
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