December 11<\/p>\n
1602 \u2013 A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of the House of Savoy, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.<\/p>\n
1719\u00a0 – 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in the New England American colonies<\/p>\n
1815 \u2013 The Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, witch is the predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.<\/p>\n
1816 \u2013 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.<\/p>\n
1868 \u2013 During the Paraguayan War of the Triple Alliance, Brazilian forces troops defeat Paraguayan near the Avay river in Paraguay.<\/p>\n
1901 \u2013 Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to Saint John’s, Newfoundland.<\/p>\n
1913 \u2013 More than 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa<\/em> is recovered in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 As allies under the Tripartite Pact, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. returns the favor and declares war on them. 1948 \u2013 The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate and end to the Arab-Israeli War.<\/p>\n 1951 – Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball<\/p>\n 1961\u00a0 – President Kennedy provides US military helicopters & crews to aid South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 The Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger,<\/em> piloted by Mission Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, lands on the Moon in the Taurus\u2013Littrow valley.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Heavy fog along a stretch of Interstate 75 in Southeastern Tennessee near Calhoun, causes multiple vehicle collisions resulting in a total of 12 people killed and 42 being injured.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square\u201342nd Street\/Port Authority Bus Terminal. 4 people are injured, including the perpetrator, a moslem immigrant from Bangladesh,\u00a0 who is later tried and sentenced to life imprisonment, plus 30 years.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer\u2013BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.<\/p>\n 2022 – U.S. authorities announce that the Libyan man accused of making the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103, Abu Agila Mas\u2019ud, is now in U.S. custody<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 11 1602 \u2013 A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of the House of Savoy, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. 1719\u00a0 – 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in the New England American colonies 1815 \u2013 The Senate creates a select committee on finance and a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62660"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98456,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62660\/revisions\/98456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAttacking Wake Island, the Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first losses when U.S. Marine Battery L fires on, and sinks the destroyer Hayate <\/em>and Grumman F4F Wildcat<\/em> fighters of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-211\u00a0 sink the destroyer Kisaragi .<\/em><\/p>\n