On This Day In History
- 1787 - Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the U.S. constitution
- 1941 - Pearl Harbor is attacked
- 1941 - Capt. Annie Fox received the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor.
- 1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
- 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist whose cartoons inspired the Rube Goldberg contests (Pulitzer Prize 1948), dies of cancer at 87
- 1972 - Apollo 17 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous "blue marble" photo of the entire Earth
- 1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became first U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
- 1988 - PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time
- 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador to the UN and a key foreign policy figure in Ronald Reaganâs administration, dies at 80
- 2017 - Former U.S. gymnastics physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges
- 2020 - Chuck Yeager, American test pilot who was the 1st man to break the sound barrier, dies at 97
Quote of the Day
"Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters."
âJeane Kirkpatrick
On the Punny Side
Where do Santaâs reindeer stop for ice cream when their job is done?
Deery Queen.
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