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DECEMBER 7
1941:Approximately 360 Japanese warplanes attack the U.S. fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, killing 2,403 Americans, mostly sailors aboard battleships. A
day later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares that Dec. 7, 1941,
will forever be "a date which will live in infamy," as he requests a declaration of war against Japan from a joint session of Congress.
1842: Urelli Corelli Hill conducts the New York Philharmonic
Society in its first public concert, focused on the works of Ludwig van
Beethoven. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphonic orchestra in the United States.
1972: Apollo 17, crewed by astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald
Evans and Harrison Schmitt, blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. To
date, Cernan is the last person to have stepped on the lunar surface.
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