Infamy

It was said that today, December 7, would live in infamy. Looking back through US history, this may be true. But there has been a lot that has happened on this day throughout the years. Here are a few of them, according to Wikipedia, The History Channel, and The New York Times:

1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1796 - Electors chose John Adams to be the second President of the United States.
1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1941 – World War II: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1965 - Chevrolet produces its 3 millionth car.
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, dies (b. 1883)
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.
2002 - Iraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.