Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar
December 7
1941
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, leading to U.S. entry into WWII
1964
A leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio, was arrested. One-third of the 27,000 students, along with faculty, were on strike protesting to preserve their first amendment right to distribute political literature and organize on campus. A faculty resolution passed (824 to 115) supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement.
1975
Indonesia invades East Timor.
1993
Four Plowshares activists were arrested for disarming an F-15E Strike Eagle nuclear war jet at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
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