1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
1817 William Bligh (died), English admiral and administrator, 4th Governor of New South Wales (born 1745)
1863 Richard Warren Sears (born), American businessman, co-founded Sears (died 1914)
1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1873 Willa Cather (born), American author (died 1947)
1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps (died), French diplomat and businessman, co-developed the Suez Canal (born 1805)
1928 Noam Chomsky (born), American linguist and philosopher
1932 Ellen Burstyn (born), American actress
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as well as the Army, Air Force, and Marine troops on duty, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time (December 8 in Asia).
1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1949 Tom Waits (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1963 Instant replay makes its debut during an Army–Navy game.
1970 Rube Goldberg (died), American cartoonist (born 1883)
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.
1995 The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1999 The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.
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