On this day :

1941 Pearl Harbor bombed, 1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution, 1964 NYC officials revive Lower Manhattan Expressway, 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove Arkansas, 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in United States for summit with Ronald Reagan, 1993 Commute of terror, 1988 Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia, 1787 The First State, 1975 Indonesia invades East Timor, 1982 First execution by lethal injection, 1988 Earthquake devastates Armenia, 2001 Clooney stars in Sinatra role in Oceans Eleven remake, 1873 Willa Cather is born, 1963 The Singing Nun reaches 1 on the US pop charts with Dominique, 1805 Lewis and Clark temporarily settle in Fort Clatsop, 1941 FDR reacts to news of Pearl Harbor bombing, 1989 Sugar Ray Leonard fights Roberto Duran for the third and final time, 1964 Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam, 1965 McNamara predicts that more US troops will be needed, 1916 David Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain, 1941 A date which will live in infamy,