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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