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Today in History ~ December 7
Pearl Harbor Day
Independence Day, celebrated in Kenya
National Ding-a-ling Day
Events0185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify Constitution
1796 - Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
1808 - James Madison elected US president
1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1842 - The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London
1909 - Leo Baekeland patented the process for making 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite), giving birth to the modern plastics industry.
1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during WWI
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1931 - President Hoover refused to see a group of "hunger marchers" at the White House.
1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1938 - Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in NYC
1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1941 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 - Eight month German siege of Tobruk ends
1941 - Japan launched a sneak attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, catapulting the United States into World War II. (a date that will live in infamy). [H]
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - Fire broke out at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta; the blaze killed 119 people, including hotel founder W. Frank Winecoff.
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - America's last moon mission to date was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1972 - Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant who was then shot dead by her bodyguards.
1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 - The first execution by lethal injection takes place at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Charles Brooks, Jr., convicted of murdering an auto mechanic, receives an intravenous injection of sodium pentathol.
1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1986 - The speaker of Iran's Parliament said his country would help free more American hostages in Lebanon in exchange for more U.S. arms.
1987 - Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington, D.C., the first Soviet leader to officially visit the United States since 1973.
1988 - Soviet republic of Armenia rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 dead; 5,000,000 homeless)
1991 - Fifty years after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a visibly moved President Bush led the nation in services commemorating the anniversary. President Bush called for an end to recriminations and sought the healing of old wounds.
1992 - The destruction of a 16th century mosque by militant Hindus touched off five days of violence across India that left more than 1,100 people dead.
1993 - A gunman opened fire on a crowded Long Island, N.Y., commuter train, killing several persons.
1993 - Astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour fixed the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed the United States had conducted 204 underground nuclear tests from 1963 to 1990 without informing the public.
1995 - A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed.
1995 - A two-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of French public-sector workers protesting planned cuts in welfare spending had spread to cities throughout France.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a nearly 18-day mission marred by a jammed hatch that prevented two planned spacewalks.
1996 - A British jogger left London on a jog-around-the-world that will end when he returned to the United Kingdom in the year 2000.
1997 - Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, actress Lauren Bacall and actor Charlton Heston were among those receiving awards from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
2000 - Al Gore's lawyer, David Boies, pleaded with the Florida Supreme Court to order vote recounts and revive his presidential campaign. Republican attorneys called George W. Bush the certified, rightful victor.
Birthdays Today
0967 - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
1542 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587)
1598 - Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
1637 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1761 - Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, created wax museum
1810 - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1840 - Hermann Goetz, composer
1876 - Willa Cather (author: O Pioneers!, My Antonia)
1879 - Rudolf Friml (musician, composer: Rose Marie, Indian Love Call)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1910 - Rod Cameron (Cox) (actor)
1912 - Louis Prima (musician, singer: Just a Gigolo; Las Vegas act [w/wife Keely Smith]; voice of Orangutan: The Jungle Book)
1915 - Eli Wallach (actor: Emmy Award-winning Best Supporting Actor/ Drama: The Poppy is Also a Flower [1966-'67])
1925 - Ted Knight (Tadeus Konopka) (Emmy Award-winning Actor: Mary Tyler Moore Show [1972-73, 1975-76])
1926 - Victor Kermit Kiam II CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
1928 - Noam Chomsky (linguist, educator, activist)
1930 - Dan Sikes, Jr. (golf)
1931 - Bobby Osborne (singer: duo: Osborne Brothers: Rocky Top)
1932 - Ellen Burstyn (Edna Rae Gilhooley) (Academy Award-winning actress: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore [1974])
1935 - Don Cardwell (baseball)
1940 - Gerry Cheevers (hockey: Boston Bruins goalie: longest undefeated streak [32 games])
1942 - Alex Johnson (baseball)
1942 - Harry Chapin (songwriter, singer: Taxi, W-O-L-D, Cat's in the Cradle; humanitarian for the needy and homeless)
1945 - Al Woodall (football)
1947 - Gary Unger (hockey)
1947 - Johnny Bench (Baseball Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Reds catcher, 1968 Rookie of the Year; broadcaster: CBS Radio baseball)
1947 - Leo Brooks (football)
1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
1949 - Brian Goodman (football)
1949 - Tom Waits, Calif, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
1951 - Pat McFarland (basketball)
1958 - Ozzie Virgil (baseball)
Famous deaths
0983 - Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1970 - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1983 - Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1985 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died in Hanover, N.H., at age 70.
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