This Week in History
DECEMBER 7
Jessica Farrell was born.
1941 – The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
2002 – Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
DECEMBER 8
Mary Heslin Reed was born.
Rachel Bernstein was born.
1941 – The U.S. entered World War II
1980 – John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.
DECEMBER 9
Mike Bottiglieri was born.
1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered.
1990 – Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland.
DECEMBER 10
Erin Halligan Farrow was born.
Laura Jean Nelson was born.
1817 – Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
2004 – A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
DECEMBER 11
Ellen Sullivan Sayles was born.
Jomar Legaspi was born.
1936 – King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain for the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson.
1941 – Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
DECEMBER 12
Sally Ann McVeigh was born.
2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential election recount in Florida.
DECEMBER 13
Brother Robert Falcone was born.
Kalin Callaghan was born.
Allen Shaw was born.
John Hanning was born.
Lauren Heyer O’Keefe was born.
1913 – The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre.
