1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.
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 "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
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