Monday, December 6, 2010

December 7th


December7th 1941: On December the 7th pearl Harbour was bombed by Japanese in the early hours of the morning.
they used 350 bombers and torpedo carrying planes, targeting warships, aircraft and military installations on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and has declared war on Britain and the United States.

The attack destroyed two battleships, one minelayer, two destroyers with the loss of more than 2,300 US servicemen The US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, has mobilized all forces and is poised to declare war on Japan.


December 7th, 1995 : The Galileo spacecraft arrives at the planet Jupiter on it's mission to study the planet and its moons.This spacecraft took off on October 18, 1989 6 years earlier by the Space Shuttle Atlantis.


December 7th, 1999 : President Bill Clinton spoke out against human rights abuses in China for the firzt time in 1999. He pointed out that thousands of Falun Gong members had been imprisoned as threats to China’s government. Falun Gong is a mixture of Buddishm, Taoism, and slow exercises.

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