1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine.
1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous "Day of Infamy" speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.
1987 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
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