<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/533a70bb-412d-44e3-b112-1ef5d2e7103f/E66F13D9-ED56-47CF-A1D7-DA6F71F185C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/D58CB29D-DBB2-4F09-9419-70B5D39B624D" alt="On This Day in History" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="middle" align="center"><FONT color="#993333"><B>Sunday, December 07th</B></FONT><BR /><FONT size="-2"> The 342nd</FONT><FONT size="-2"> day of 2008. <BR /> There are 24 days left in the year.<BR /><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html"><NOBR>Go to a previous date.</NOBR></A></FONT><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/B9A4F9F5-1BFB-4A61-B54D-3EA9DCCB6206" alt="NYT Front Page" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left">On Dec. 7, <B>1941</B>, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. <FONT size="2"> (<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/../onthisday/big/1207.html#article">Go to article.</A>) </FONT><P> <BIRTH> On <BIRTH_MONTH>Dec.</BIRTH_MONTH> <BIRTH_DAY>7</BIRTH_DAY>, <BIRTH_YEAR><B>1873</B></BIRTH_YEAR>, <FIRST_NAME>Willa</FIRST_NAME> <LAST_NAME>Cather</LAST_NAME>, <DESCRIPTION>the American novelist famous for her descriptions of life on the American frontier</DESCRIPTION>, was born. </BIRTH> <DEATH> Following <SEX>her </SEX> death on <DEATH_MONTH>April</DEATH_MONTH> <DEATH_DAY>24</DEATH_DAY>, <DEATH_YEAR>1947</DEATH_YEAR>, <SEX>her </SEX> obituary appeared in The Times. </DEATH> <FONT size="2"> <NYT_HISTORIC_BIRTHDAY> <NOBR>(<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1207.html">Go to obit.</A></NOBR> | <NOBR><A href="#birthdays">Other Birthdays</A>)</NOBR> </NYT_HISTORIC_BIRTHDAY> </FONT></P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>On <B>December  7, 1872</B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">, </FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman"> <I><FONT size="3">Harper's Weekly</FONT> </I> <FONT size="3"> featured a cartoon about President Ulysses S. Grant and civil service reform.</FONT></FONT> <FONT size="2"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1207.html">(See the cartoon and read an explanation.)</A></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="60" valign="top"><FONT size="+1"><B>1787</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left"><DIV>Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.</DIV><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="60" valign="top"><FONT size="+1"><B>1796</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left"><DIV>Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.</DIV><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="60" valign="top"><FONT size="+1"><B>1836</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><DIV>Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20081207.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="60" valign="top"><FONT size="+1"><B>1842</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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