Today’s Significant Events
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
1783 – William Pitt the Younger (24) becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister
1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2403 people
1965 – Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1988 – 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
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