Once Upon A Time – Dec. 7 – 2017 – Ballon d’Or: Cristiano Ronaldo Wins 5th Award To Equal Messi’s Record

43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae.

1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry.

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1990 Pakistani authorities arrest Tahir Iqbal, a Christian paraplegic, declaring he had insulted Mohammed by underlining passages and making margin notes in a copy of a Koran. He died in prison, having declared, “I will kiss my rope, but I will never deny my faith.”

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time.

1988 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless

Today’s Historical Events

Today In Film & Tv

1979 “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” first movie of the series premieres directed by Robert Wise, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy

Today In Music

1995 American rock band The Grateful Dead break up after the death of Jerry Garcia

Today In Sport

2017 Ballon d’Or: Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo wins his 5th award to equal Lionel Messi’s record; 2nd consecutive win for Ronaldo

1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati