Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 January 1959

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Pearl Harbour was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.Four battleships and two other ships sunk, three battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers and three other ships were damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 159 damaged, 2402 were killed and 1247 wounded. The Japanese had four midget submarines sunk and one grounded, 29 aircraft destroyed, 64 killed and one captured.
(7 December 1941)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 21st of January 1959 65 years ago He Went to the Morgue Instead
Film director Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 78 in Hollywood, California, United States. On the evening before DeMille's doctor paid him a visit at home and seeing how weak the director was advised that he go to the hospital at once. DeMille merely replied "No, I think I'll go to the morgue instead."