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December 7
1787Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1917The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I. 1941The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 1972America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral. 1975Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation. 1988A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000. 2001Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan. 2002Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction. 2004Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president. 
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