Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Pearl Harbour was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.Four battleships and two other ships sunk, three battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers and three other ships were damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 159 damaged, 2402 were killed and 1247 wounded. The Japanese had four midget submarines sunk and one grounded, 29 aircraft destroyed, 64 killed and one captured.
(7 December 1941)
There are 3364 births, 3920 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.
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The Eyes Have It
Monday 14th of November 2005
The advantage of not speaking Chinese and yet wandering as an unwary nobody into the forbidden wing of the museum in Museum of Natural History, 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, Hebei, China
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