When we see, hear or read “December 7th,” we likely immediately think of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. I thought you might like to learn of other events throughout history that also happened on December 7th:

• 1696 – Connecticut Rt 108, one of the oldest highways in America is completed to Trumbull
• 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England
• 1787 – Delaware is the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
• 1808 – James Madison elected 4th U.S. President
• 1842 – New York Philharmonic’s first concert
• 1868 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri
• 1872 – HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 1/2 year world oceanographic cruise
• 1891 – the 52nd U.S. Congress was first to appropriate $1,000,000,000
• 1909 – Inventor patents Bakelite, sparking birth of the plastics industry
• 1912 – Bust of Queen Nefertiti found in El-Amarna, Egypt
• 1917 – The USA’s 42nd “Rainbow” Division arrives in France (with Col. Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)
• 1917 – U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during WW I
• 1926 – Gas refrigerator patented
• 1937 – Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
• 1937 – Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
• 1941 – Adolf Hitler issues first anti-Jewish proclamations
• 1967 – Otis Redding records “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay”
• 1972 – Apollo 17 launched; crew takes famous “blue marble” photo of Earth
• 1979 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture, first movie from the TV series
• 1992 – Galileo spacecraft passes the North Pole of the Moon; 1995 heads to Jupiter
• 2020 – Coca-Cola named the world’s No. 1 plastic polluter
• 2021 – Chile becomes the 31st nation to legalize same-sex marriage

There was a L-O-N-G list of events that happened on December 7th, in several categories. Ask Google to read the entire list….