History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com

• 1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
• 1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
• 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.
• 1971 - Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
• 1989 - East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution.
• 1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a racist, black gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
• 1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.