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December 7 in History

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Topics Included on this Video for December 7 in History:

1. Attack on Pearl Harbour (December 7th 1941).

Let’s start the week with some WW2 action, cause on December 7th 1941 at 7:48 am Hawaiian Time, Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack against the USA fleet at Pearl Harbour. This successful Japanese attack however would be their doom, since the US got pissed, enter the war and tipped the scale in favour of the Allies. So Why did Japan attack? Well, after a US embargo, Japan wanted to expand across South East Asia to secure more resources, specially oil, so the surprise attack was meant to cripple the US so they could do nothing to stop them. As a result there was near simultaneous to other attacks on Philippines, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong. However the Japanese had miscalculated and the US was able to recover and repair most of the battleships sunk, returning them to service and fighting in the war. Now, some writers have suggested that this was not a surprise attack, the US and British governments might have been aware in advance and may have let it happen with the aim of bringing America into war. Ooohhh…

2. The Microwave is patented (December 7th 1945).

December 7th also marks a big day for all lazy cooks around the world cause on that day in 1945 the microwave oven was patented. Percy LeBaron Spencer, an eighth-grade dropout and electronic wizard, accidentally discovered that microwaves would also heat food while working on a radar machine that used microwave radiation. He was carrying a chocolate bar in his pocket and when we went to take a bite, shit! it was completely melt and his shirt was ruined. So after the war he invented the first microwave oven and the first commercial unit was almost 6ft tall, weighed 340 kilograms and cost about 5,000 dollars which is about 53,000 of today’s dollars. What was the first food he cooked on such an expensive machine? Pop corn… ok… what about the second one? an egg, which exploded in his face… shit, who would buy this? this is a tough sell. Anyway, In the 80S the microwave rapidly grew in popularity thanks to much lower prices and now they are an essential kitchen appliance in many countries around the world.

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