The Borneo Post

HISTORY AT A GLANCE

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TODAY is Wednesday, December 7, the 341st day of 2016. There are 24 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan’s near-simultaneo­us attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.) 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of

China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan. 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagora­s I simultaneo­usly revoke mutual excommunic­ations that had been in place since 1054. 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister. 1972 – Imelda Marcos survives an assassinat­ion attempt

using a bolo knife against her. 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. 1975 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion

begins. 1988 – Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000. 1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. 1999 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Associatio­n of America sues the peer-topeer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringeme­nt. 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami Internatio­nal Airport. 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London,

seriously damaging about 150 properties. 2007 – The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.

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