TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010

Today is Tuesday, December 7, the 341st day of 2010. There are 24 days left in the world.

43 B.C. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head and right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers

1842 ― New York Philharmonic's first concert

1877 ― Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the gramophone

1941 ― Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)

1945 ― Microwave oven patented

1949 ― Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan

1981 ― Spain becomes a member of the NATO

1988 _ Gorbachev announces 10 percent unilateral Soviet troop reductions at U.N.

1988 ― Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel

1988 ― Earthquake in Armenia; 6.9 on the Richter scale (100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)