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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1796 Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
1836 Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1842 The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act that led to America's entry into World War II.
1946 Fire broke out at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, killing 119 people.
1963 Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast as CBS re-showed a touchdown run during the Army-Navy football game.
1972 America's last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1982 Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.
1985 Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.
1988 An earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern Armenia; an estimated 25,000 people died.
1993 A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17.
1995 A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.
1998 Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Bill Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.
2001 Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.
2002 Iraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.
2004 Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
Birthdays...
Baseball hall-of-famer Johnny Bench turns 53 today
90 Eli Wallach
Actor
65 Gerry Cheevers
Hockey hall-of-famer
56 Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter
50 Priscilla Barnes
Actress
49 Larry Bird
Basketball hall-of-famer
47 Tim Butler
Rock musician (The Psychedelic Furs)
39 C. Thomas Howell
Actor
32 Terrell Owens
Football player
27 Shiri Appleby
Actress
Have a great day everyone. :D
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