PrintDecember 7, 2009
Graph of the Day for December 7, 2009
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941.
Source: The "Internet."
Hoven's Index for December 7, 2009
Number of US deaths from the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941: 2,402.
Number of atom bombs the US dropped on Japan in 1945: 2.
Number of days from when "Little Boy" (first atomic bomb) was assembled and ready, to when it was dropped on Japan: 5.
Number of days after "Little Boy" was dropped that "Fat Man" (second atomic bomb) was dropped on Japan: 3.
Number of deaths from the September 11 attacks in 2001: 2,976.
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