December 7th is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining in the year.

1787 • Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution becoming the first of the United States.

1796 • John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.

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

1869 • American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, MO.

1900 • Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.

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.

1995 • A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter’s atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed.

1996 • The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.

2007 • first significant snowfall of the season at Tall Weed Acres, the Legel family home.

2009 • first significant snowfall of the season at Tall Weed Acres, the Legel home near Tremont.

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