World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon. Date: December 10, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 10 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya. Date: December 10, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 10 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan. Date: December 9, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.) Date: December 8, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day…
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. Date: December 8, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
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.) Date: December 7, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war. Date: December 6, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. Date: December 5, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army. Date: December 5, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 5 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. Date: December 1, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 1 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)