National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 citizens of the United States who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress, by , designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On November 29, President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation declaring December 7, 1994, the first National Pearl Harbor
Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad The Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of New York. Despite its name, it only existed in the immediate vicinity of Greigsville, a small community in the town of York, and did not reach Pearl Creek, a hamlet in Covington. The company was organized October 1, 1897 and chartered January 26, 1898, to build from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line at North Greigsville (present-day Greigsville) west to the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway at Pearl Creek. Three miles (5 km) were constructed from the DL&W to