Eamon de Valera publicly repudiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his 'Day of Infamy' speech to the US Congress – a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
A fire destroyed Vienna's Ring Theater, which killed between 640-850 people.
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
John Lennon had his last professional photoshoot.
