This Week in History
December 7, 1941
Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i, drawing the United States into World War II.
December 10, 1901
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
December 12, 1913
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy, two years after being stolen from the Louvre in Paris, France.