Today:
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London.
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1815 – Michel Ney, one of Napoleon’s marshals, is executed by firing squad in Paris for treason.
1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1917 – The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.
1941 – The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to enter World War II.
1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I lift the mutual excommunications that led to the Great Schism of 1054 between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
1972 – Apollo 17, the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, launches, carrying the last humans to date to walk on the Moon.
1982 – Charles Brooks Jr. becomes the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal injection, in Texas.
2016 – John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and a former U.S. Senator, dies at age 95.
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