On This Day: December 7th

British racing driver Lando Norris wins the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025 with McLaren.

An attempted coup takes place in Benin, but is thwarted, and order restored.

Battle of Damascus (2024): Syrian opposition forces enter the Rif Dimashq Governorate, reaching within 20 km of the capital Damascus.

Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison kills two students at his former high school.

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.

The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest is targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.

Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

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