HAWAII: The US will mark the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, today.
The attack on Dec 7, 1941, shook a country that had been so focused on World War II in Europe that it had lost sight of the threat posed by Japan, according to historians.
The attack killed 2,390 Americans, and the US declared war on Japan the next day.
The bombing was famously dubbed “a date which will live in infamy” by then-US president Franklin D Roosevelt.
The US defeated Japan in August 1945, days after US atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.