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07 Dec 1354
Margaretha van Bavarians son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
07 Dec 1696
Connecticut Route 108 one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
07 Dec 1703
Great storm of hits Southern England - thousands killed Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1500 seamen
07 Dec 1703
The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of
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The First State
In Dover Delaware the U.S. Constitution is unanimously ratified by all 30 delegates to the Delaware Constitutional Convention making Delaware the first state...
Indonesia invades East Timor
Early in the morning Indonesian forces launch a massive invasion of the former Portuguese half of the island of Timor which lies near Australia in the Timor S...
First execution by lethal injection
The first execution by lethal injection takes place at the state penitentiary in Huntsville Texas. Charles Brooks Jr. convicted of murdering an auto mechanic...
Earthquake devastates Armenia
In the Soviet Union an earthquake of a 6.9 magnitude on the Richter scale hits northwestern Armenia affecting an area 50 miles in diameter. The initial earthq...
Pearl Harbor bombed
At 755 a.m. Hawaii time a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oa...
Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam
The situation worsens in South Vietnam as the Viet Cong attack and capture the district headquarters at An Lao and much of the surrounding valley 300 miles nor...
McNamara predicts that more U.S. troops will be needed
In a memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara states that U.S. troop strength must be substantially augmented if w...
Sugar Ray Leonard fights Roberto Duran for the third and final time
On December 7 1989 the boxer Sugar Ray Leonard triumphs over a lackluster Roberto Duran in a unanimous 12-round decision at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Leo...
FDR reacts to news of Pearl Harbor bombing
On this day in 1941 at around 130 p.m. President Franklin Roosevelt is conferring with advisor Harry Hopkins in his study when Navy Secretary Frank Knox burs...
Lewis and Clark temporarily settle in Fort Clatsop
Having spied the Pacific Ocean for the first time a few weeks earlier Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross to the south shore of the Columbia River (near m...
Willa Cather is born
On this day in 1873 Willa Cather is born in Winchester Virginia. Cather was the first of seven children born to an old Virginia family dating back to colonia...
Clooney stars in Sinatra role in Ocean’s Eleven remake
On this day in 2001 Oceans Eleven a caper film featuring an all-star ensemble cast including George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Bernie Mac Don Ch...
Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia
Two earthquakes hit Armenia on this day in 1988 killing 60000 people and destroying nearly half a million buildings. The two tremors only minutes apart were...
Commute of terror
Colin Ferguson opens fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train from New York City killing 6 and injuring 19. Other train passengers stopped the perpetrato...
Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas
On this day in 1862 northwestern Arkansas and southwestern Missouriare secured for the Union when a force commanded by General James G. Blunt holds off a force...
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