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December 7
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.
1909 - In his State of the Union address, President William Howard Taft defended the decision to base U.S. naval operations in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, instead of the Philippines.
1911 - China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail.
1917 - The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.
1941 - Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the home base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans and drawing the United States into World War II.
1972 - America's final manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1975 - Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.
1982 - A U.S. prisoner was executed by lethal injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.
1985 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan.
1988 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000 people.
1993 - A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)
1995 - A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.
2001 - Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their lost stronghold in Afghanistan.
2002 - Iraq formally declared to the U.N. that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
2011 - Ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.
2014 - Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Catherine, arrived in New York City on their first official visit to the U.S.
2017 - Democratic Sen. Al Franken said he would resign after a series of sexual harassment allegations; he took a parting shot at President Donald Trump, describing him as “a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault.” Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona said he would resign, after revealing that he discussed surrogacy with two female staffers.
2018 - The man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted of first-degree murder; a state jury rejected defense arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general. (Barr would be confirmed and sworn-in in February.)
Birthdays
26 - Indyamarie (model)
29 - Yasiel Puig (baseball player)
31 - Emiyl Browning (actress)
32 - Aaron Carter (singer)
34 - Jon Moxley (professional wrestler)
37 - Jack Huston (actor)
40 - Jennifer Carpenter (actress)
40 - Sara Bareilles (singer)
41 - Shiri Appleby (actress)
42 - Chris Chalk (actor)
43 - Sunny Sweeney (country singer)
44 - Nicole Appleton (singer)
46 - Terrell Owens (football player)
47 - Kimberly Hebert Gregory (actress)
53 - C. Thomas Howell (actor)
54 - Jeffrey Wright (actor)
55 - Patrick Fabian (actor)
61 - Edd Hall (TV announcer)
62 - Priscilla Barnes (actress)
63 - Larry Bird (basketball player)
70 - Tom Waits (singer)
72 - James Keach (actor)
72 - Johnny Bench (baseball player)
79 - Carole Simpson (broadcast journalist)
87 - Ellen Burstyn (actress)
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Today in Sports History - December 7
1937 - The Boston Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams.
1939 - Lou Gehrig was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. He was the first player to have the rule waived that required a player to be retired one year before he could be elected.
1949 - Leon Hart of Notre Dame wins the Heisman Trophy.
1963 - Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.
1985 - Auburn running back Bo Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy.
1996 - Texas upsets #3 Nebraska 37-27 in St. Louis in the inaugural Big 12 Conference Championship Game.
2009 - Manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
2017 - Former U.S. gymnastics team physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years in prison on child pornography charges.
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.
1909 - In his State of the Union address, President William Howard Taft defended the decision to base U.S. naval operations in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, instead of the Philippines.
1911 - China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail.
1917 - The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.
1941 - Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the home base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans and drawing the United States into World War II.
1972 - America's final manned mission to the moon, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1975 - Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation.
1982 - A U.S. prisoner was executed by lethal injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.
1985 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan.
1988 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000 people.
1993 - A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)
1995 - A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.
2001 - Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their lost stronghold in Afghanistan.
2002 - Iraq formally declared to the U.N. that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
2011 - Ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.
2014 - Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Catherine, arrived in New York City on their first official visit to the U.S.
2017 - Democratic Sen. Al Franken said he would resign after a series of sexual harassment allegations; he took a parting shot at President Donald Trump, describing him as “a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault.” Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona said he would resign, after revealing that he discussed surrogacy with two female staffers.
2018 - The man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted of first-degree murder; a state jury rejected defense arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general. (Barr would be confirmed and sworn-in in February.)
Birthdays
26 - Indyamarie (model)
29 - Yasiel Puig (baseball player)
31 - Emiyl Browning (actress)
32 - Aaron Carter (singer)
34 - Jon Moxley (professional wrestler)
37 - Jack Huston (actor)
40 - Jennifer Carpenter (actress)
40 - Sara Bareilles (singer)
41 - Shiri Appleby (actress)
42 - Chris Chalk (actor)
43 - Sunny Sweeney (country singer)
44 - Nicole Appleton (singer)
46 - Terrell Owens (football player)
47 - Kimberly Hebert Gregory (actress)
53 - C. Thomas Howell (actor)
54 - Jeffrey Wright (actor)
55 - Patrick Fabian (actor)
61 - Edd Hall (TV announcer)
62 - Priscilla Barnes (actress)
63 - Larry Bird (basketball player)
70 - Tom Waits (singer)
72 - James Keach (actor)
72 - Johnny Bench (baseball player)
79 - Carole Simpson (broadcast journalist)
87 - Ellen Burstyn (actress)
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Today in Sports History - December 7
1937 - The Boston Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams.
1939 - Lou Gehrig was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. He was the first player to have the rule waived that required a player to be retired one year before he could be elected.
1949 - Leon Hart of Notre Dame wins the Heisman Trophy.
1963 - Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.
1985 - Auburn running back Bo Jackson wins the Heisman Trophy.
1996 - Texas upsets #3 Nebraska 37-27 in St. Louis in the inaugural Big 12 Conference Championship Game.
2009 - Manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
2017 - Former U.S. gymnastics team physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years in prison on child pornography charges.