HOW THE NEWS COVERED THE NEWS

This was a week that lives in infamy with two events that rocked the world. The first, of course, occurred on Dec. 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II — and eventually spawned the Greatest Generation. The other, and nearly as shocking, was the assassination of Beatles legend John Lennon by Mark David Chapman as Lennon was returning to his apartment on the Upper West Side on Dec. 8, 1980.

As the Daily News counts down to its 100th birthday next year, New York’s hometown paper – the first daily tabloid in the U.S. when it debuted on June 26, 1919 – is giving loyal readers a look into our famed archives to help celebrate the centennial.

Check in every week to see how The News covered the top stories of the day.

New Yorkers crowd around cab in Midtown and others flood Times Square (inset, top) to get latest news after FDR’s Vice President Henry Wallace (left) signs war resolution. Right, cops in city hustle away Japan Consul Morito Morishima (right).