This Day in HIstory December 7th 2016

• Lead Story

• 1941 Pearl Harbor bombed

• American Revolution

• 1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution

• Automotive

• 1964 NYC officials revive Lower Manhattan Expressway

• Civil War

• 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas

• Cold War

• 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in United States for summit with Ronald Reagan

• Crime

• 1993 Commute of terror

• Disaster

• 1988 Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia

• General Interest

• 1787 The First State
• 1975 Indonesia invades East Timor
• 1982 First execution by lethal injection
• 1988 Earthquake devastates Armenia

• Hollywood

• 2001 Clooney stars in Sinatra role in Ocean’s Eleven remake

• Literary

• 1873 Willa Cather is born

• Music

• 1963 The Singing Nun reaches #1 on the U.S. pop charts with “Dominique”

• Old West

• 1805 Lewis and Clark temporarily settle in Fort Clatsop

• Presidential

• 1941 FDR reacts to news of Pearl Harbor bombing

• Sports

• 1989 Sugar Ray Leonard fights Roberto Duran for the third and final time

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam
• 1965 McNamara predicts that more U.S. troops will be needed

• World War I

• 1916 David Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain

• World War II

• 1941 A date which will live in infamy 

• 1943 Rasheed Abiodun Gbadamosi, economist and former minister of national planning, was born in Lagos State
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• 1947 Frank Kokori, trade unionist and former secretary-general, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, was born in Warri, Delta State.
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• 1954 Irene Nkechi Chigbue, economist and lawyer, was born at Umuadia Inetiti in Imo State.