Saturday, December 7, 2013

December 7th in History


1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1862 - US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

1917 - World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

1922 - Northern Ireland opted out of the Irish Free State (established the day previous) and remained part of the United Kingdom.

1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time (December 8 in Asia).

1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.

1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

1975 - Indonesia invades East Timor.

1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.

1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

Famous Birthdays:

521 - St Columba, Catholic saint

1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots

1803 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, Queen consort of Spain as the wife of King Ferdinand VII of Spain.

1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia

1916 - Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces

1924 - Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal

1969 - Patrice O'Neal, stand-up comedian and actor

1977 - Dominic Howard, drummer

1978 - HRH Princess Bhajara of Thailand

1984 - Luca Rigoni, footballer

1989 - Nicholas Hoult, actor

2003 - HRH Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, second in the line of succession to the Dutch throne

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