When nearly 200 Japanese aircraft raided Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in a surprise attack that killed nearly 3000 and damaged or destroyed much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, it became "a date that will live in infamy" with the United States officially entering World War II on the following day.
Many years earlier, on December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and did so by unanimous vote.
Much more recently, on December 7, 1972, Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On December 7, 1995, U.S. spacecraft Galileo entered its orbit of Jupiter.
This year, today is the Islamic New Year (the first day of the first month of the Islamic calendar).
Since 1996, the United Nations has declared December 7th as International Civil Aviation Day.
On December 7, 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale, in the then Soviet province of Armenia, killed more than 60,000 people.
Singer and songwriter Harry Chapin would have been 68 years old today (born December 7, 1942).
Marie Grosholtz Tussaud, creator of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, was born in France on December 7, 1941.
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