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Put your birthdate without the year into Wikipedia and see what comes up. (Events, births, deaths)
On December 7...
Events:
1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Corps and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1989 - In their third and final fight, Sugar Ray Leonard retains the WBC Super-Middleweight Championship of the World , defeating Roberto Duran.
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
Births:
1761 - Marie Tussaud, French-born museum proprietress and waxwork modeller (d. 1850)
1863 - Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
1973 - Terrell Owens, American football player
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer
Deaths:
283 - Pope Eutychian
1254 - Pope Innocent IV
2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach
Holidays:
United States - Pearl Harbor Day
Put your birthdate without the year into Wikipedia and see what comes up. (Events, births, deaths)
On December 7...
Events:
1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Corps and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1989 - In their third and final fight, Sugar Ray Leonard retains the WBC Super-Middleweight Championship of the World , defeating Roberto Duran.
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
Births:
1761 - Marie Tussaud, French-born museum proprietress and waxwork modeller (d. 1850)
1863 - Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
1973 - Terrell Owens, American football player
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer
Deaths:
283 - Pope Eutychian
1254 - Pope Innocent IV
2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach
Holidays:
United States - Pearl Harbor Day