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Sunday, December 09, 2018
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| 1776 | Washington's army crosses the Delaware River from NJ to Pennsylvania |
| 1863 | Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of the South |
| 1914 | British annihilate German squadron off the Falkland Islands |
| 1933 | The Fleet Marine Force established |
| 1936 | Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
| 1938 | Lauvrenti Beria follows Nikolai Yezkhov as head of Russian secret police |
| 1941 | The U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. |
| 1941 | Japanese troops occupy Shanghai |
| 1941 | Japanese troops land on Guam. |
| 1941 | Japanese troops land in Malaya |
| 1941 | Japanese troops invade Siam |
| 1941 | Japanese troops attack Hong Kong, |
| 1941 | Japanese destroyers attack Wake. |
| 1941 | Japanese a/c destroy U.S. a/c at Clark and Iba airfields, Philippines |
| 1941 | FDR declares December 7, 1941 "A date that will live in infamy." |
| 1941 | Dutch sub sinks 1st Japanese ship in the war, DD Isonami off Celebes. |
| 1941 | Aussie inf coy lands on western Timor, in the Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1941 | "Force Z" (HMSs Prince of Wales and Repulse) sails from Singapore. |
| 1942 | Papua: U.S. a/c defeat Japanese attempt to land troops at Buna |
| 1942 | Papua: Japanese troops withdrawing from Gona sustain heavy losses. |
| 1943 | U.S. fast battleship task force bombards Japanese positions on Nauru. |
| 1943 | Japanese air raids on British airfields in Assam. |
| 1943 | New Guinea: Australian troops capture Wareo. |
| 1944 | U.S. bombers and CV aircraft begin a 72 day pounding of Iwo Jima |
| 1952 | French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
| 1966 | US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| 1982 | Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
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| 536 | Belisarius captures Rome |
| 1738 | Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia |
| 1824 | Chileans defeat Spanish at Ayacucho, Peru |
| 1835 | Texians capture San Antonio de Bexar from the Mexicans |
| 1854 | Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" is published |
| 1861 | Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Territory |
| 1910 | French troops occupy Agadir, Morroco |
| 1917 | British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem |
| 1931 | Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
| 1933 | Romania bans Fascistic Iron Guard |
| 1938 | Prototype radar installed on USS New York (BB-34). |
| 1939 | Russian air raid on Helsinki |
| 1940 | Greeks begin counteroffensive against Italians in Albania |
| 1940 | British first offensive in North Africa, against the Italian Tenth Army |
| 1941 | Siam agrees to a cease fire with Japan. |
| 1941 | Japanese troops from Kwajelein occupy Tarawa in the Gilberts. |
| 1941 | Malaya: Japanese capture Khota Baru airfield in the north. |
| 1941 | Luzon: Japanese bomb Nichols Field. |
| 1941 | Luzon: First US bombing mission in Far East, against Japanese troops |
| 1941 | China declares war on Japan, after four years of "incidents". |
| 1942 | Australians capture Gona in hand-to-hand fighting. |
| 1943 | Bougainville: SeaBees complete Torokina airstrip. |
| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek requests increased US financial and air assistance. |
| 1948 | UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
| 1961 | SS Col Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel |
| 1967 | Nicolea Ceausescu becomes dictator of Romania |
| 1987 | Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| 1992 | Operation Restore Hope begins: US Marines land in Somalia |
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| 1809 | Napoleon divorces Josephine |
| 1864 | Sherman reaches Savannah & 12 day siege begins |
| 1877 | Turkish surrender Plevna to Romano-Russians after a protracted siege |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War ends, US gains Philippines, Puerto Rico, & Guam |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: British troops in Cape Colony defeated at Battle of Stormberg |
| 1901 | First Nobel Peace Prizes, to Jean Henri Dunant and Frederic Passy |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt is the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1920 | Woodrow Wilson receives the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1926 | Hitler's "Second Book" published |
| 1941 | Japanese troops begin landings in northern Luzon. |
| 1941 | Japanese naval aircraft bomb Cavite Navy Yard, Manila Bay. |
| 1941 | Japanese a/c sink HMSs Prince of Wales and Repulse, South China Sea. |
| 1941 | Guam surrenders to a Japanese landing force after a two day battle. |
| 1942 | U.S. aircraft bomb Munda. |
| 1942 | Japanese aircraft airdrop supplies into Buna. |
| 1942 | Hitler names Mussert "Fuhrer of the Netherlands " |
| 1942 | Br offensive in Arakan, moving between the sea and the mountains. |
| 1942 | Papua: Australian troops land at Oro Bay, near Buna |
| 1948 | UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1990 | Hindu-Muslim rioting in Hyderabad-Aligargh, India, 140 die |
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