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(Wednesday, November 26, 1941, evening EST; 11 days before the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor) — U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull presented Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura and special Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu with the Hull note, setting forth U.S. demands for “lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area.”

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Notably, its text repeated previous American demands for complete withdrawal of all Japanese troops from China and French Indochina.

The strike force that would attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, had set sail the day before, on the morning of Nov. 26, 1941, Japan time, which was Nov. 25, Washington time. It could have been recalled along the way, but no further diplomatic progress was made.