12-07-2005, 06:45 AM
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December 7th
43 BC ~ Death of Cicero, Roman politician and author.
1787 ~ Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1817 ~ Death of William Bligh, British naval officer.
1905 ~ Birthday of Gerard Kuiper, Astronomer.
1928 ~ Birthday of Noam Chomsky, Linguist.
1941 ~ The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II.
1965 ~ Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1970 ~ Death of Rube Goldberg, cartoonist.
1972 ~ Launch of Apollo 17, the last manned lunar landing mission.
1975 ~ Indonesia invaded East Timor.
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