Today’s Historical Events
Today is Sunday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2025. Only 24 days left in the year.
Notable Events on this Day:
On Dec. 7, 1972, Apollo 17, America’s last crewed moon mission to date, took off from Cape Canaveral.
In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
On this day in 1941, Japan launched a devastating air raid on Pearl Harbor, leading to the U.S. declaring war against Japan.
In 1982, Charlie Brooks Jr. was the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection.
In 1988, a major earthquake in the Soviet Union claimed the lives of at least 25,000 people in northern Armenia.
In 1993, a tragic mass shooting aboard a Long Island Rail Road train in New York resulted in six deaths and 19 injuries.
In 2004, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.
In 2018, James Alex Fields Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder for driving his car into a crowd at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.
In 2024, the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was reopened to the public after a devastating fire in 2019.
Birthdays Today:
- Noam Chomsky turns 97, Ellen Burstyn is 93, Johnny Bench is 78, Tom Waits is 76, Susan M. Collins is 73, Larry Bird is 69, Jeffrey Wright is 60, C. Thomas Howell is 59, Terrell Owens is 52, Alan Faneca is 49, Shiri Appleby is 47, Sara Bareilles is 46, Nicholas Hoult is 36, Pete Alonso is 31, and Torri Huske is 23.
