December 07
1787
Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1917
The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1941
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
1972
America’s final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1975
Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.
1988
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000.
2001
Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan.
2002
Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
2004
Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.
Birthdays
Giovanni Bernini
1598–1680.
Richard Warren Sears
merchant (1863)
Willa Cather
novelist (1873)
Ted Knight
actor (1923)
Noam Chomsky
educator and linguist (1928)
Ellen Burstyn
actress (1932)
Reginald Lewis
business leader (1942)
Tom Waits
songwriter, singer, actor (1949)
Larry Bird
basketball player (1956)
Aaron Carter
singer (1987)