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What happened in history on this day: December 7?
On December 7 in ...
- 1787 - Delaware becomes first state to ratify US Constitution.
- 1808 - James Madison elected US President, with George Clinton as Vice-President.
- 1812 - The Territory of Missouri is created.
- 1836 - Martin Van Buren is elected 8th US President.
- 1854 - A fire sweeps across the roof of the Charlotte Branch Mint.
- 1862 - Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee, CSA.
- 1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, CSA.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia.
- 1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri, kills one person.
- 1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone.
- 1885 - 49th US Congress (1885-87) convenes.
- 1891 - 52nd US Congress (first to appropriate $1 billion) holds first session.
- 1907 - In Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA, a falling meteorite starts a fire, destroying a house.
- 1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria.
- 1930 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the CBS radio orchestra program is broadcast in video and includes the first television commercial in the United States.
- 1932 - First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in New York, USA.
- 1938 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch by radio.
- 1941 - First Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward).
- 1941 - (before 0800 hours) Japan attacks the United States Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1941 - (0810 hours) In Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona is stuck by a 1760-pound aerial armor-piercing bomb, which detonates over one million pounds of gunpowder in the ship's forward deck, killing 1177 crewmen.
- 1941 - (0945 hours) Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor end. 2403 Americans are dead, with 1178 wounded. Eighteen major fighting ships are sunk, and 188 aircraft are destroyed.
- 1941 - Japan attacks Philippines, Wake, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai, and declares war on US and Great Britain.
- 1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1946 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA kills 119.
- 1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinnati; the US$22,646 fine goes unpaid.
- 1972 - Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission (last of Apollo Moon series), is launched.
- 1973 - The Bureau of the Mint announces tests are being conducted with aluminum alloy cents; the US Treasury requests authority to coin aluminum cents.
- 1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, convicted murderer, becomes first US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.
- 1985 - US space shuttle Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base.
- 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airline Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
- 1987 - Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the USA for a summit meeting.
- 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall Street crowds upon arrival in New York City.
- 1993 - Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 16 and injuring 29.
- 1995 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and other executives give a seven-hour briefing speech and workshop in Seattle, Washington, on Microsoft's Internet strategy. Microsoft announces it has licensed Java from Sun Microsystems, and will add extensions to the technology for use with the Microsoft Network. Microsoft announces it has licensed browser technology from Spyglass for Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh, and will also offer Internet Explorer 2.0 on all platforms free of charge. The Microsoft Network will be redesigned as a Web site.
- 2005 - A U.S. Federal Air Marshal fatally shoots Rigoberto Alpizar on a jetway at Miami International Airport in Florida.
Births on December 7
- 1847 - Birth of James Deacon White in Canton, New York, USA; ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chicago).
- 1891 - Birth of Fay Bainter in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair).
- 1895 - Birth of Jack Pennick in Portland, Oregon, USA; actor (Lady From Louisiana).
- 1912 - Birth of Louis Prima in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; singer ("That Old Black Magic").
- 1915 - Birth of Leigh Douglass Brackett AKA Leigh Brackett in Los Angeles, California, USA; sci-fi author (The Ginger Star, The Hounds of Skaith, The Reavers of Skaith), screenwriter (The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye, The Empire Strikes Back).
- 1915 - Birth of Eli Wallach in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Magnificent Seven, Misfits, People Next Door).
- 1923 - Birth of Ted Knight in Terryville, Connecticut, USA; actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort).
- 1932 - Birth of Ellen Burstyn in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actress (The Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here).
- 1936 - Birth of Martha Layne Collins in Baghdad, Kentucky, USA; American politician (Governor-Democrat-Kentucky).
- 1940 - Birth of Mike Minor in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Steve - Petticoat Junction, All My Children).
- 1942 - Birth of Harry Chapin in New York City, New York, USA; folk/rock singer/songwriter ("Taxi", "Cat's in the Craddle").
- 1947 - Birth of Vincent Baggetta in Paterson, New Jersey, USA; actor (Lou - Chicago Story).
- 1948 - Birth of Gary Morris in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; singer/actor (Les Misèrables, The Colbys).
- 1949 - Birth of Tom Waits in California; rocker/song writer ("Blue Valentine").
- 1955 - Birth of Priscilla Barnes in Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA; actress (License to Kill, Three's Company).
- 1961 - Birth of Mary Beth Evans in Pasadena, California, USA; actress (Katherine Ashton - General Hospital).
- 1963 - Birth of Kristi Albers in El Paso, Texas, USA; LPGA golfer (1993 Sprint Classic).
- 1964 - Birth of Peter Laviolette in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA; American hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994).
- 1966 - Birth of C Thomas Howell in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man).
- 1967 - Birth of Tino Martinez in Tampa, Florida, USA; first baseman (Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees).
- 1968 - Birth of Cammy Myler in Plattsburgh, New York, USA; luger (Olympics-1994).
- 1968 - Birth of Melissa Iverson in Anoka, Minnesota, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Ben Atkins in New York City, New York, USA; fencer-epee (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Rea Marie Bavilla; Miss USA-Alaska (1997).
- 1977 - Birth of Fernando Vargas in Oxnard, California; welterweight boxer (Olympics-1996).
Deaths on December 7
- 1862 - Sylvester Churchill, USA Brigadier-General, dies.
- 1970 - Rube Goldberg, Ameican cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at age 87.
- 1975 - Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at age 78.
- 1980 - Death of Darby Crash by heroin overdose at age 22; American songwriter, singer (The Germs) (born 1958).
- 1982 - Death of Will Lee; American actor (Mr. Hooper - Sesame Street) (born 1908).
- 1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, convicted murderer, becomes first US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.
- 1985 - Potter Stewart, 94th US Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in New Hampshire at age 70.
- 1990 - Death of Delecta "Dee" Clark at age 52; US singer ("Raindrops").
- 1998 - Death of Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1925).
- 2003 - Death of Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (born 1913).
- 2003 - Death of Azie Taylor Morton, U.S. Treasurer (born 1936).
- 2006 - Death of Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (born 1926).
- 2020 - Death of Chuck Yeager at age 97 in Los Angeles, California, USA; US Air Force Brigidier General, World War II double ace, first commandant of the US Air Force's Aerospace Research Pilot School, flew 127 missions as commander of 405th Tactical Fighter Wing in the Vietnam War, first pilot to break sound barrier.
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