16840 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2021/12/07/On-This-Day-Japan-attacks-Pearl-Harbor/8581638842300/In 1909, Leo Baekeland patented the process for making Bakelite, giving birth to the modern plastics industry. In 1941, Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii , catapulting the United States into World War II. The attack killed 2,403 people, wounded hundreds, destroyed 188 planes and crippled the U.2021-12-07T09:08+0100upi-a15fe443f2e0e9b3daa4ef66ecd1f6f820211207090800https://en.armradio.am/2021/12/07/on-anniversary-of-spitak-earthquake-president-sarkissian-calls-for-unity/President Armen Sarkissian calls for unity on the 33rd anniversary of the Spitak earthquake. “Today we commemorate the memory of the victims of the 1988 December disaster, the earthquake,” the Pesident said. He conveyed words of sympathy and support to all countrymen who lost their loved ones, family and home during the devastating earthquake.2021-12-07T08:47+0100armradio-5d192ce6d6f0f0941137a9ba9f06990320211207084700https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/149812/Magnitude-30-earthquake-strikes-near-Pahrump-Nye-County-Nevada-USA.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 3.0 occurred late at night on Monday, December 6th, 2021, at 11:11 pm local time near Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, USA, as reported by the United States Geological Survey. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a very shallow depth of 3.9 miles.2021-12-07T08:23+0100volcanodiscovery-dea5db866b7353ec50a8e2a2beb3d0af20211207082300https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1070036.html09:43, 7 December, 2021 YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. The Spitak earthquake shattered the peace of Armenia 33 years ago. The devastating earthquake, measuring 10 degrees on the MSK scale, took place in 40% of the territory of Armenia at 11:41 (local time), December 7, 1988.2021-12-07T07:33+0100armenpress-ad10f44d71ddb2ca378cc985332b004720211207073300