This day in history

1900: Kateryna Bilokur, folk artist of Ukraine, is born in Poltava oblast.

1917: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.

1921: The RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR sign an interim agreement with Austria in Vienna.

1940: The Ukrainian Canadian Committee is formed.

1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, crippling US naval power.

1944: The Convention on International Civil Aviation is signed in Chicago. In 1996 the UN proclaimed this date to be the International Civil Aviation Day.

1970: Poland and West Germany sign a treaty to normalize relations between the two countries in Warsaw.

1988: Armenia sustains an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, causing considerable material damage and loss of life.

2004: Secretary of State Colin Powell declares that the United States support the development of democracy in Ukraine and Georgia.