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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1787, Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution
• 1869, outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri
• 1909, chemist Leo H. Baekeland received a U.S. patent for Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic
• 1911, China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail
• 1917, World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary
• 1925, five-time Olympic gold medalist and future movie Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in 150-yard free-style swimming
• 1930, W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show
• 1941, during World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor --- The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States
• 1946, a fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history
• 1972, Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth
• 1982, in Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States
• 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
• 2003, during a visit to the United States, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said "we will never tolerate" Taiwan splitting away from China
• 2006, the U.S. military transferred the first group of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a new maximum-security prison on the naval base
• 2010, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to authorities in London, where he was jailed for nine days before being freed on bail as he fought extradition to Sweden for questioning in an investigation of "abuse against a woman"
• 2013, Merrill Newman, 85-year-old Korean War veteran/tourist held in North Korea for more than a month, returned to the United States
• 2014, six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arrived in Uruguay amid a new push by President Barack Obama to close the U.S. prison
David Shribman: Pearl Harbor moves from memory to history
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not again!
Katie Mettler: 75 years later, remembering FDR's day of 'infamy,' a phrase that almost wasn't
Bob Tyrrel: How Bob Dylan copped a Nobel
Ramesh Ponnuru: Big threat on campus isn't political correctness
Josh Rogin: Former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta says Democrats should give Mattis a waiver to be defense secretary
Byron York: Senate Dems plan to 'Ashcroft' their good friend Jeff Sessions
Michelle Malkin: The Messy Truth About Van Jones
Chris Cillizza: Dems have lost an entire generation of congressional leaders
Stephen Carter: A response to the pleas to shut up Trump
Marc A. Thiessen: Trump's Taiwan call wasn't a blunder. It was brilliant
Charles Hurt: Dirty little secret of Washington's Masters of Insanity, revealed
Jonah Goldberg: Can we really take Trump seriously, not literally?
John Stossel: A Strong Leader
Dick Morris: ObamaCare: Let It Wither Away
Walter Williams: Majority Rule Equals Tyranny
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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