In the present day is Saturday, Dec. 7, the 342nd day of 2024. There are 24 days left within the yr.
In the present day in historical past:
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing greater than 2,300 Individuals. The US declared warfare in opposition to Japan the next day.
Additionally on this date:
In 1787, Delaware turned the primary state to ratify the U.S. Structure.
In 1982, convicted assassin Charlie Brooks Jr. turned the primary U.S. prisoner to be executed by deadly injection, at a jail in Huntsville, Texas.
In 1988, a significant earthquake within the Soviet Union devastated northern Armenia, killing not less than 25,000 folks.
In 1993, six folks have been killed and 19 wounded in a mass taking pictures aboard a Lengthy Island Rail Highway practice in New York.
In 2004, Hamid Karzai (HAH’-mihd KAHR’-zeye) was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.
In 2018, James Alex Fields Jr., who drove his automobile right into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia, was convicted of first-degree homicide.
In the present day’s Birthdays:
Linguist and political thinker Noam Chomsky is 96.
Actor Ellen Burstyn is 92.
Baseball Corridor of Famer Johnny Bench is 77.
Singer-songwriter Tom Waits is 75.
Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, is 72.
Basketball Corridor of Famer Larry Chook is 68.
Actor Jeffrey Wright is 59.
Actor C. Thomas Howell is 58.
Soccer Corridor of Famer Terrell Owens is 51.
Soccer Corridor of Famer Alan Faneca is 48.
Actor Shiri Appleby is 46.
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles (bah-REHL’-es) is 45.
Actor Nicholas Hoult is 35.
MLB All-Star Pete Alonso is 30.
Olympic swimming gold medalist Torri Huske is 22.
