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On this day in history
A date which has lived in infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an early morning attack on Pearl Harbor. Of the many ships anchored there on Battleship Row, the USS Oklahoma was the target of multiple torpedoes. The ship capsized at 8:08 a.m. and hundreds of men were trapped below her decks. There were 2,402 US deaths from the attack. Of those deaths, 1,177 were from the USS Arizona, and 429 were from the USS Oklahoma.
As we remember the events of Pearl Harbor that occurred 81 years ago, we encourage our readers to delve into its history by using the Oklahoma Historical Society's multiple online resources. To learn more about the USS Oklahoma, check out the e-exhibit dedicated to the USS Oklahoma on the OHS "Learn" page. View the WKY-TV documentary Appointment at Pearl, available on the OHS’s WKY KTVY KFOR Archives YouTube channel. Read the entry on the USS Oklahoma in The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture to learn about the vessel's full history beginning in 1914. Search The Gateway to Oklahoma History to see photographs, explore documents, and read newspaper articles about the USS Oklahoma.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a legendary speech on the day after the Pearl Harbor attack to a joint session of Congress. Immediately following his remarks on that day, the US entered into World War II. To read more about FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech, visit the National Archives.
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Holiday events at OHS museums and historic sites |
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Bake Day and Gingerbread Decorating
Visit Fort Gibson Historic Site for a special Bake Day on Saturday, December 17, at 10 a.m. The staff at the fort will cook fresh bread and batches of gingerbread cookies just in time for the holidays! Fresh batches of bread will be ready at noon and again at 3 p.m., and big batches of gingerbread cookies will be available throughout the day starting at 11 a.m.
The smell of fresh-baked bread will fill the crisp fall air on Garrison Hill as OHS staff and volunteers bring the bakehouse to life. Learn about this aspect of post–Civil War army life as you enjoy bread-making demonstrations in the original 1863 wood-fired oven. Visitors can even sample the finished product, and children can decorate their own gingerbread person to take home.
Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Fort Gibson Historic Site is located at 907 N. Garrison Avenue in Fort Gibson. For more information, please call 918-478-4088.
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Click event listings below for more information.
8 - “Tribal Consultation in the Section 106 Process” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
9 - Oklahoma Tall Tales Uncovered presentation and book signing with author Joe M. Cummings, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid
10 - Quilting workshop with Martha Ray, Sod House Museum, Aline
10 - Breakfast with Santa, Henry and Anna Overholser Mansion, Oklahoma City
10 - Christmas Open House, Sod House Museum, Aline
10 - Photos with Santa, Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore
10 - Christmas Open House, Fred and Addie Drummond Home, Hominy
10 - Holiday Open House, Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum, Pawnee
10 - Civil War Christmas program, Honey Springs Battlefield, Checotah
11 - Christmas Open House, Hunter's Home, Park Hill
11 - Christmas Tea, Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School, Perry
12 - “Working with the National Register of Historic Places” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
13–17 - Holiday Candlelight Tours, Hunter’s Home, Park Hill
13 - “How to Research your ‘Historic’ Property” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
14 - “Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program Overview” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
15 - “The Secretary’s Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
16 - “The Secretary of the Interior’s Guidelines for Rehabilitation” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
17 - Bake Day and Gingerbread Decorating, Fort Gibson Historic Site, Fort Gibson
17 - History Alive! on the Cherokee Strip, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Enid
21 - Oklahoma Historical Society Executive Committee meeting, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City
27 - “Shut the Door! Barns in Oklahoma: The Significance of Barns in the Oklahoma Cultural Landscape” webinar (VIRTUAL), State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma City
30 - Movie Night featuring Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore
31 - Observing With NASA Smithsonian exhibit kiosk closes, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City
7 - “Architecture of the Capitol” discussion with Trait Thompson, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City
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The Voices of Oklahoma project preserves oral histories and legacies of influential Oklahomans. Selections include military interviews of Oklahoma's men and women who served in the US armed forces. The first-person accounts given by those who valiantly served and shaped this state's history are a treasure for future generations to discover. |
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Corrected masthead photo: USS Oklahoma (2012.201.B0927.0346, OPUBCO Collection, OHS).
CORRECTION: The photograph originally used as the masthead photo in the December 7, 2022 EXTRA! publication cited as "A colorized digital image of the USS Oklahoma underway in 1933 (9356, Oklahoma Historical Society Photograph Collection, OHS)" was not a photograph of the USS Oklahoma. The vessel depicted in image 9356 was mislabled. It depicts the USS Oklahoma City.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, July 9, 1938 (21430.1, J. W. Tatom Collection, OHS).
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