On This Day - December 7, A Shot of History

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1941 – 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4sTBJ0tvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mSrrw4iM0

43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writings_of_Marcus_Tullius_Cicero#/media/File:M-T-Cicero.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_Marcus_Tullius_Cicero_-_Manchester_City_Gallery_-_Tempera_on_canvas_c_1800.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GShfxk5Y2dk

1988 – Spitak earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Armenian_earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uprU555SuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezcQ9zf1No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gOxB4hTvwc

1949 – Tom Waits is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch6x9iHlVHU

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet