History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com
Donald Albert Hall 1898 - Aircraft designer (Spirit of St. Louis), Eli Wallach 1915, Ted Knight 1923 


Harry Chapin 1942, Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947, Larry Bird (NBA) 1956 


1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States. 


1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States. 


1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation. 


1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II. 
 

1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission. 


1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX. 


1995 - A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed. 


1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.