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    Associated Press
    Dec 7 2004

    Today in History
    Dec 7

    In 1988, a major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern
    Armenia; official estimates put the death toll at 25,000.



    Today is Tuesday, Dec. 7, the 342nd day of 2004. There are 24 days
    left in the year. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at
    sunset.

    Today's Highlight in History:

    On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked American and British
    territories and possessions in the Pacific, including the home base
    of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

    On this date:

    In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S.
    Constitution.

    In 1796, electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the
    United States.

    In 1836, Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the
    United States.

    In 1946, fire broke out at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta; the blaze
    killed 119 people, including hotel founder W. Frank Winecoff.

    In 1963, during the Army-Navy game, videotaped instant replay was
    used for the first time in a live sports telecast as CBS re-showed a
    one-yard touchdown run by Army quarterback Rollie Stichweh. (Navy
    beat Army, 21-15.)

    In 1972, America's last moon mission to date was launched as Apollo
    17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

    In 1972, Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E.
    Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant who was
    then shot dead by her bodyguards.

    In 1983, in Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with
    an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff,
    killing all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.

    In 1987, 43 people were killed in the crash of a Pacific Southwest
    Airlines jetliner in California after a gunman apparently opened fire
    on a fellow passenger and the two pilots.

    In 1988, a major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern
    Armenia; official estimates put the death toll at 25,000.

    Ten years ago: PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, meeting with U.S.
    Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Gaza City, pledged to
    protect Israelis from militant extremists.

    Five years ago: NASA scientists all but gave up hope of contacting
    the Mars Polar Lander, last heard from four days earlier as it began
    its descent toward the Red Planet.

    One year ago: Allies of President Vladimir Putin won a sweeping
    victory in Russia's parliamentary elections. Zimbabwe withdrew from
    the Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies, which had
    suspended it for alleged abuses of civil liberties.
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