This day in history will forever live in infamy!

[markjs]

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h72000/h72273k.jpg

:usa:

*a lonely bugle blows out a hauntingly beautiful old familiar song in memory of those who died that fateful day....* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeNKft0WaI)

[Mare]

December 11th


1936: Edward VIII, king of Great Britain and Ireland for 325 days, becomes the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily.


1941: Two days after Congress passed a declaration of war against Japan, Germany and Italy declare war against the United States.


1946: The United Nations establishes the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to provide relief and support to children living in countries devastated by war.


1997: Delegates at the Kyoto, Japan, conference on global warming agree to cut emission of greenhouse gases by 5.2% of 1990 levels during the years 2008 to 2012.