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Today in History: Monday, December\u00a0 07, 2015<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed.
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1787<\/td>\nDelaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1796<\/td>\nElectors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1836<\/td>\nMartin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1842<\/td>\nThe New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>\nVideotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nAmerica’s last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\nA U.S. prisoner was executed by injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nRetired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nAn earthquake in northern Armenia claimed an estimated 25,000 lives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nA gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nA 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter’s atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2001<\/td>\nTaliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nIraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nHamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nOusted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Highlights of This Day in History<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Football player Terrell Owens turns 42 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ellen Burstyn<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thad Cochran<\/td>\nU.S. senator, R-Miss.<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gerry Cheevers<\/td>\nHockey Hall of Famer<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carole Simpson<\/td>\nBroadcast journalist<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johnny Bench<\/td>\nBaseball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Waits<\/td>\nRock singer, actor<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Larry Bird<\/td>\nBasketball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edd Hall<\/td>\nActor, announcer<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Wright<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C. Thomas Howell<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sara Bareilles<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, turns 63 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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