Dec 7... "Please, PLEASE Shoot Me Day"...

http://tqr.mentalblockparty.com/html/NHborgquist6.htm

Fort Sumter, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor ...

What other ones am I missing? No, not sneak attacks. The ploy of suckering the other guy into taking the first shot.

EDIT:
Update on the Lusitania.