1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, setting off its invasion of the Philippines, then a colony of the United States. The bombing breaks American neutrality in World War II.
1912 - The bust of the beautiful ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, (ca. 1350 B.C. of the 18th Dynasty), is discovered by German archeologist Ludwig Borchard.
1937 - Dutch Minister Romme forbids married women from working.
2001 - Taliban forces in Afghanistan flee from their last stronghold of Kandahar following weeks of bombardment by United States warplanes.
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