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||1941 – 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.) | ||1941 – 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.) | ||
File:Stanford Official Review 2007.jpg|link=Instant replay (nonfiction)|1963: [[Instant replay (nonfiction)|Instant replay]] makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. | |||
||1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | ||1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | ||
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||1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) | ||1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) | ||
||2015 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||2015 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals (nonfiction)) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.