Friday, December 7, 2007

A day the will live in infamy

On December 7 in the year:
1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first of the United States

1842 New York Philharmonic plays first concert

1917 US becomes the 13th country to declare war on Austria in World War I

1934 Pilot Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

1941 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is bombed by Japanese causing US to enter World War II

1972 Last US moon mission begins when Apollo 17 is launched at Cape Canaveral

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