HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Wednesday, December 12, the 346th day of 2018. There are 19 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China. 1948 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaya allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. 1979 – The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia. 2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyongsong-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.