December 7th, 2009

Today in History

2004:
John Kufuor is re-elected as president of Ghana.

2003:
The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

1995:
The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

1941:
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor officially brings the United States into World War II.

1776:
Marquis de Lafayette enters the American military as a major general.