Immediately upon Louis XV's death at around 11:00 pm at night on May 10, 1774, heir-presumptive Louis-Auguste, Duke of Berry immediately became King Louis XVI of France. This quick transition of sovereignty was made within the phrase: The King is dead. Long live the King!.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.here were near-simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The attacks-from troop landings at Kota Bharu, Malaya, to the air attacks ranging geographically from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor-took place over seven hours.
Japan was being bombed with a nuclear bomb because they were at war with the United States. The U.S dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan, the first was on Hiroshima Monday August â¦ 6 1945 and the seconded one on Nagasaki Thursday August 9 1945.the bomb was dropped between this short three day period because before Germany had surrendered Stalin and Roosevelt met up and negotiated a proposition. Today's Battle: August 9, 1945-the bombing of Nagasaki The second atomic bomb dropped in combat was dropped 68 years ago today on the city of Nagasaki, Japan.