12 December 1937 December 11, 2012 Author: Staff Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us." Dick Cheney — Click here for more from Dick Cheney Related posts: 13 August 1937 6 May 1937 13 August 1937 27 September 1937 12 December 1988 2 July 1937 Categories: History Tags: 12 December, 1937