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Saturday, December 7, 1996

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  • "He'll forever be remembered as the standard by which all sports executives are judged. He did more for professional football and the NFL than any other sports executive has done."

    -- New York Giants owner Wellington Mara on the death of Pete Rozelle



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    Today's Events


    • The Summit of Americas annual meeting is scheduled to open in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

    • India, in its biggest-ever health campaign, is scheduled to begin a program to immunize 125 million children against polio.

    • Space shuttle Columbia is scheduled to land, if weather permits, after an extended 18-day record-setting mission.

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    On the horizon


    • On Sunday, December 8, Slovenia is scheduled to hold a referendum on electoral reform, a month after the ex-Yugoslav republic's third multiparty general elections.

    • On Monday, December 9, auctioneer Christie's is scheduled to hold its fourth annual sale of rare teddy bears in London.

    • On Tuesday, December 10, the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and East Timor independence activist Jose Ramos-Horta is scheduled to take place in Oslo, Norway.

    • On Wednesday, December 11, the Selection Committee announces Hong Kong's first post-colonial chief executive-designate; China's Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and Hong Kong policy guru Lu Ping are expected in Hong Kong for meeting.

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    On this day


    • In 1787, Delaware voted to adopt the newly created federal constitution, thus becoming the first state of the United States.

    • In 1808, Republican James Madison was elected U.S. president. The vice presidency was won by incumbent New Yorker George Clinton.

    • In 1836, Democrat Martin Van Buren was elected U.S. president.

    • In 1842, the New York Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert.

    • In 1916, Herbert Asquith resigned as British prime minister and was replaced by David Lloyd George, the war secretary, with a commitment to wage all-out war on Germany.

    • In 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, destroying many aircraft and ships and precipitating U.S. declaration of war on Japan.

    • In 1965, Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of the Greek Church formally annulled the excommunication pronounced on the Church of Rome in 1054.

    • In 1971, Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets.

    • In 1972, the U.S. launched Apollo 17, the last Apollo, on its way to the moon.

    • In 1974, President Makarios returned to Cyprus to a hero's welcome after 4 1/2 months in exile.

    • In 1975, the Indonesian army swept into East Timor -- Jakarta already owned the western half of the island -- as civil war broke out after the Portuguese colonial rulers of three centuries left.

    • In 1979, Charles Haughey was elected Irish prime minister, replacing Jack Lynch.

    • In 1988, in Armenia, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale killed more than 25,000 people.

    • In 1989, Czechoslovak President Gustav Husak accepted the resignation of Communist Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec.

    • In 1989, President Corazon Aquino asked the Philippine Congress for extra powers to rule the country after a six-day coup attempt ended in a defiant march by army rebels back to barracks.

    • In 1990, GATT trade talks were suspended when a row over farm subsidies between the European Community and the U.S. paralyzed a four-year attempt to lift barriers on commerce.

    • In 1992, nearly 180 people were killed and hundreds injured when riots erupted across India after Hindu militants demolished an ancient mosque.

    • In 1993, the U.S. government said it had concealed 204 nuclear blasts at its Nevada test site, more than one-fifth of total tests, to keep the old Soviet Union in the dark about the U.S. arsenal.

    • In 1993, a lone gunman aboard a packed rush-hour commuter train opened fire at passengers just outside New York, killing six and wounding 19.

    • In 1995, a probe from the spacecraft Galileo successfully entered the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter.

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    Newslink


    "A date that will live in infamy": On December 7, 1941, nearly 200 Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The raid, which lasted little more than an hour, left nearly 3,000 dead. To find out more about the bombing and its impact click here.


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    Holidays and more


    • Today, Armenia holds its 1988 Earthquake Memorial Day.

    • It's the Independence War Veterans Day and Fall of Lieutenant General Antonio M in Cuba.

    • Today the Ivory Coast Republic celebrates Independence Day.

    • Today is the 55th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day.

    • Singer Gregg Allman is 49.

    • Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is 49.

    • Former basketball player Larry Bird is 40.

    • Actress Ellen Burstyn is 64.

    • Actor C. Thomas Howell is 30.

    • Singer Tom Waits is 47.

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    Sources: Associated Press,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan



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