RM2B01DE0–USA/Japan: Headline of the San Antonio Express (Texas) on 8 December, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia.
RM2B01C2K–Vietnam/France: 'Dien Bien Phu Has Fallen', Headlines of 'Le Parisien', 8-9 May, 1954. The important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Vo Nguyen Giap), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 5:30 PM on March 13 to 5:30 PM on May 7, 1954. The southern outpost or fire base of the camp, Isabelle, did not follow the cease-fire order and fought until the next day at 01:00 AM, a few hours before the long-scheduled Geneva Meeting's Indochina conference.
RM2B010XW–Nigeria: 'Battle Royal for Benin relics'. Headline from the Glasgow Herald, January 25 1997.
RM2B03708–Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
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