DECEMBER 7
1787: Delaware is the first of the original 13 colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution, appropriately earning its nickname as "The First State."
1941: Two thousand, four hundred and two Americans, mostly sailors aboard battleships, are killed when some 360 Japanese warplanes attack the U.S. fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests a declaration of war against Japan from Congress the following day, irrevocably bringing the United States into World War II. Roosevelt declares that Dec. 7, 1941, will forever be "a date which will live in infamy."
1972: Apollo 17, crewed by American astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt, blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The crew snaps the famous photograph "The Blue Marble," depicting a fully illuminated Earth as viewed from space, a few hours after liftoff. Cernan remains the last man to have stepped on the lunar surface, as Apollo 17 was NASA's final manned mission to the Moon.
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