December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 24 days remain until the end of the year. 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on …

2014年12月9日 · Historical events for the 7th of December. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on December 7.

The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II.

2009年10月29日 · On December 7, 1941 the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,403 service members and wounded 1,178 more, and sank or...

On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked the neutral United States at Naval Station Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, killing 2,403 Americans and injuring 1,178 others. The attack sank …

2011年12月7日 · What happened on this day in history, December 7. See what historical events occurred, which famous people were born and who died on December 7.

On this day in 1941, Japanese bombers launched a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, precipitating the entry of the United States into World War II. American aviator Chuck Yeager, the first person to exceed the speed of sound in flight, died at age 97.

That was the “long fuse” of the Great Pacific War (1941-45), the long-term background to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Sitting in the Japanese crosshairs that fateful Sunday morning was not only the US Pacific Fleet, but the Hawaiian Islands.

Discover what happened on December 7 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

2011年12月7日 · The following day, in an address to a joint session of Congress, President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress then declared War on Japan, abandoning the nation’s isolationism policy and ushering the United States into World War II.