LeBron James started for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Miami Heat, making it the 1,611th regular-season game of his career and tying Robert Parish’s all-time NBA mark.
North Carolina looked like a bit of a long shot to serve as a host in the NCAA Tournament when the regular season wound down.
The surprise Japanese attack on US warships in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on December 7 1941 killed 2,390 Americans. The US declared war on Japan the next day, with the then president Franklin D.