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Dec 20 Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon 
Dec 21 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
Dec 21 HMS AUDACITY, sunk east of Azores by 3 torpedoes from German U-751.
Dec 22 Japanese capture Sugar Loaf Hill at 12 noon, but Canadians from C Company of the Royal Rifles recapture the hill; later taken out to Stanley Fort down the peninsula, for a rest; will hold out until their ammunition, food and water are exhausted.
Dec 22 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines.
Dec 22 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83.
Dec 22 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference.
Dec 23 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
Dec 24 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
Dec 25 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
Dec 26 Winston Churchill is recorded as becoming 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing".
Dec 26 Winston Churchill is recorded as becoming inaugural British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing".
Dec 27 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
Dec 28 State of siege comes into force in Bohemia/Moravia
Dec 29 Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
Dec 30 Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach.
Dec 31 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet
Dec 31 Sigwart Aspestrand, composer, dies at 85.
Dec 31 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young.
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