{"id":50685,"date":"2014-12-08T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=50685"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:13","slug":"this-week-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/this-week-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 7 (Sunday):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 8:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1966\u00a0U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.<\/li>\n<li>1989\u00a0Great Britain performs nuclear test.<\/li>\n<li>2013\u00a0In Kiev, Russia, anti-government protesters topple the last surviving monument of Vladimir Lenin; the monument fell in Bessarabska Square; it was pounded with hammers and only some parts of the Soviet hero&#8217;s legs remained.<\/li>\n<li>2013\u00a0After the People&#8217;s Republic of China expands its air zone, South Korea responds by expanding its air defense zone, causing rising tensions in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 9:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1941\u00a0Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed.<\/li>\n<li>1948 The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as General Assembly Resolution 260.<\/li>\n<li>2012\u00a0Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province for inciting eight self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 10:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1898 Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam.<\/li>\n<li>1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/li>\n<li>1972\u00a0U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 11:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1986\u00a0South Africa censors press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 12:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2012\u00a0The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 13:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013\u00a0An experimental privacy feature on Google&#8217;s Android mobile software is removed, raising objections from the Electronic Frontier Foundation; the feature allowed users to block apps from collecting personal information such as a user&#8217;s location and address book data.<\/li>\n<li>2013\u00a0The body of former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader&#8217;s ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December 14:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1937\u00a0Japanese troops conquer\/plunder Nanjing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development &amp; Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important\/relevant dates to observe this week.<br \/>\nDecember 7 (Sunday):<br \/>\n    1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.<br \/>\nDecember 8:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}