What happened on 7 December?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese carrier strike on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor brings America into WWII.
2. 1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan With CCP victory in the civil war, the Republic of China government retreats to Taiwan.
3. 43 BCE Cicero is proscribed and killed The Second Triumvirate revives Sulla's proscriptions and Antony puts Cicero at the top of the list for the Philippics. Rome's greatest orator is caught at Formiae and offers his ne
4. 1598 Born: Gian Lorenzo Bernini Baroque sculptor and architect whose statues defined St Peter's and Rome.
5. 2024 Notre-Dame de Paris reopens After five years of restoration, Notre-Dame reopens to the public.
6. 1988 Armenian earthquake The Spitak earthquake kills tens of thousands in Soviet Armenia; Gorbachev's appeal for Western aid signalled the USSR's new openness.
7. 1815 Marshal Ney faces the firing squad 'The bravest of the brave', who promised Louis XVIII to bring Napoleon back in an iron cage and then joined him, is shot in the Luxembourg Gardens for treason — refusing a blindfol