Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Today is Cotton Candy Day, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and Letter Writing Day.

Winter Resource of the Day: Nature Cat: Animals In Winter - Part One

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
  
  
• 1787- Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

ON THIS DATE

• 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution.
• 1796 - Electors choose John Adams over Thomas Jefferson as the second president of the U.S.
• 1836 - Martin Van Buren is elected the eighth president of the U.S.
• 1941 - Japan attacks the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, making it the deadliest hotel fire in American history.
• 1963 - Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.
• 1972 - The last Apollo moon mission, Apollo 17, is launched.
• 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft, launched on October 18, 1989, arrives at Jupiter.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1873 - Author Willa Cather
• 1878 - Japanese poet Yosano Akiko
• 1928 - Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin
• 1949 - Singer-songwriter Tom Waits
• 1952 - Maine politician Susan Collins
• 1956 - Basketball player and Celtics legend Larry Bird

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle - LISTEN
• Tom Waits - Hold On - LISTEN

THEME:  ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

• Grades K-5 -  PBS Learning Media - Wyoming Voices - Pearl Harbor Day (7:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - National Parks - Pearl Harbor National Memorial - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The Attack on Pearl Harbor (1:58) - VIEW, READ,  DO
• Grades 6-12 - National World War II Museum Educational Resources -VIEW, READ, DO, LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor  First-Person Stories (Available in Spanish) (4:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Pearl Harbor: Teaching with Primary Sources - VIEW, LISTEN, AND DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Respond to Pearl Harbor (6:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 1: Introduction (15:02) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 2: World War: Pearl Harbor (10:04) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the  Arizona - Chapter 3: Battleship Row is Destroyed (11:15) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 4: The Deeper Decks (8:22) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 5: The Final Dive (10:49) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - History of the Arizona (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Into the Arizona - Road to War and the Morning of the Attack (7:36) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Arizona's Destruction (3:49) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Aftermath of the Attack (7:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The War - Pearl Harbor: The Attack (2:47) - VIEW and DOVideo

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339