Event
USS Panay incident: Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat Panay PR-5 on the Yangtze in China
12 Dec 1937 · 31.69° N, 118.44° E
What the records say
- When
- 12 Dec 1937
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 31.69° N, 118.44° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, USS Panay incident.
Summary
USS Panay incident: Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat Panay PR-5 on the Yangtze in China; the United States accepts the Japanese statement that this was unintentional.
4 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Auf dem Jangtsekiang wird das amerikanische Kanonenboot Panay, das Amerikaner aus Nanjing (Nanking) evakuiert und drei US-Öltanker im Geleit hatte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la canonnière américaine Panay et la canonnière britannique Ladybird sont bombardées par l’aviation japonaise”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “パナイ号事件日本海軍機が米砲艦「パナイ」を誤爆”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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- Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact21 Aug 1937 · Treaty
- Second Sino-Japanese War7 Jul 1937 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000,000
- Japan-China Basic Relations Treaty30 Nov 1940 · Treaty