Photos we found of people, places and events on December 7th in the 20th Century:
The Sale Rugby Club practise a scrum during a night training session, 7th December 1937. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
7th December 1960: American film star Kirk Douglas with a lion cub called Spartacus which was presented to him by the director of Southport zoo in appreciation of Douglas’ film role. (Photo by Lee/Central Press/Getty Images)
7th December 1960: Carole North is fed a cup of tea by a Master Slave Manipulator at the Watford factory of Nuclear Equipment Ltd in Hertfordshire. The device, operated by Will Shepherd, is designed for the remote handling of equipment in the nuclear industry. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
7th December 1964: Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health Sir Barnett Stross talks to a patient with facial burns at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Nurses carry out dressing work for the National Finals of a competition for the Minister of Health’s Cup held by the National Hospital Hospital Service Reserve. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
7th December 1935: A motorist pauses as Laffin Leslie, an 18-year-old dwarf, guides Jimmy, the ‘only rideable zebra in the world’, across a road in Berkshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
7th December 1971: Schoolboys giggling while a soldier searches them in a street in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
7th December 1953: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Dwight D Eisenhower and French Premier Joseph Laniel at the Bermuda Conference. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
7th December 1926: The Ruggles Orientator, or ‘Bath Tub’, used by the US School of Aviation Medicine in preflight testing to give students the feel of instrument flying. A hood could be placed over the cockpit to simulate flying at night or under nonvisual conditions. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
7th December 1931: English politician Austen Chamberlain with his wife Lady Chamberlain who pauses during a tour of his constituency to put up a poster of her husband. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)
7th December 1938: The cocklewomen of Penclawdd in South Wales at work boiling and cleaning their catch. They are endeavouring to form themselves into a company now that a number of the old style fish bars have closed, thus threatening their trade. This would enable them to open a modern cleaning plant in the village. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
7th December 1938: The Highest Tribunal of Uruguay, in one of the prisons of Montevideo. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
7th December 1941: The USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at their base in Pearl Harbour (Pearl Harbor) on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
7th December 1967: Jenny Boyd, sister in-law of Beatle George Harrison, helps out at Apple, the Beatles clothes boutique in Baker Street, London. (Photo by Ted West/Central Press/Getty Images)
Women buying scarves recycled from RAF escape maps in a London shop, 7th December 1945. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Female students from Reading University, taking part in a rag-week event in aid of the Berkshire Hospital, 7th December 1926. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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