
December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining. ==Events== *1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin. *1886 - American Federation of Labor founded. *1888 - Bulgaria's National Assembly adopts an Act on establishing a higher school in Sofia. *1907 - King Gustav V of Sweden accedes to the Sweden throne *1914 - Battle of the Falkland Islands fought. *1941 - World War II: After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day, the Congress of the United States passes a declaration of war against Japan, bringing the United States officially into World War II; United States House of Representatives Jeannette Rankin casts the only "no" vote. In response, Adolf Hitler Germany declares war on the United States. *1941 - Holocaust: First Nazi use of gas vans on Jews, at the Chelmno camp near Lodz. *1949 - Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan *1961 - A fire at a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut kills 16 people. *1968 - NLS (computer system) (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco *1969 - An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people. *1976 - The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, ''Hotel California'' *1980 - Mark David Chapman murders former The Beatles John Lennon. *1987 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed. *1991 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus *1991 - First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum. *1993 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton. *1994 - US President Bill Clinton signs a bill enacting United States participation in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT was formally signed on April 15 1994, in Marrakesh, Morocco by 124 nations). * 1998 - 81 people killed by armed groups in the Tadjena massacre in Algeria. *2003 - The Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada officially merge to create the new Conservative Party of Canada. *2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations, a regional parliament, a common market and a common currency for South American nations. *2004 - Former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell is shot dead on stage with his new band Damageplan at a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. ==Births== *65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC) *1542 - Mary I of Scotland (d. 1587) *1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) *1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765) *1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, physiologist and botanist (d. 1799) *1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825) *1790 - Richard Carlille, reformer (d. 1843) *1813 - Adolf Kolping, theologian (d. 1865) *1815 - Adolph Menzel, painter and graphic artist (d. 1905) *1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (d. 1890) *1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author (d. 1910) *1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, author and folklorist (d. 1908) *1861 - Aristide Maillol, sculptor (d. 1944) * 1861 - William C. Durant, automobile pioneer (d. 1947) *1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921) *1864 - Camille Claudel, graphic artist (d. 1943) *1865 - Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957) *1886 - Diego Rivera, painter (d. 1957) *1890 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer (d. 1959) *1894 - James Thurber, writer (d. 1961) *1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (d. 1976) *1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) *1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997) *1923 - Rudolph Pariser, chemist *1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., actor and singer (d. 1990) *1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut *1930 - Maximilian Schell, actor, film director, and author *1933 - Flip Wilson, comedian (d. 1998) *1936 - David Carradine, actor *1937 - James MacArthur, actor * 1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004) *1939 - James Galway, Irish flutist *1943 - Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971) *1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress *1946 - John Rubinstein, actor and composer *1947 - Gregg Allman, musician *1950 - Rick Baker, film makeup artist *1953 - Kim Basinger, actress *1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, musician *1957 - Phil Collen, guitarist (Def Leppard) *1961 - Ann Coulter, author, political commentator, and attorney *1964 - Teri Hatcher, actress *1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, musician *1968 - Mike Mussina, baseball player *1976 - Dominic Monaghan, actor *1976 - Corey Taylor, musician (Slipknot) *1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer/songwriter *1978 - Ian Somerhalder, U.S. actor * 1978 - Vernon Wells, baseball player *1986 - Amir Khan (boxer), boxer ==Deaths== *899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850) *1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet *1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV *1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767) *1859 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785) *1864 - George Boole, mathematician *1907 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829) *1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer (b. 1836) *1952 - Charles Lightoller, second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874) *1958 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1888) *1978 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel *1980 - John Lennon, British musician, singer/songwriter, guitarist with The Beatles (b. October 9, 1940) *1982 - Marty Robbins, country music singer *1983 - Slim Pickens, actor *1984 - Luther Adler, American stage actor *1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917) *1996 - Howard Rollins Jr., actor *1999 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction editor (b. 1923) *2001 - Kurt Ruh, German scholar *2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922) *2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) *2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909) *2004 - Dimebag Darrell, guitarist (Damageplan and Pantera) (b. 1966) ==Holidays and observances== *Afflux (Discordian calendar) (Discordianism) *Buddhism - The Bodhi of Gautama Buddha *Catholic -Holy Day of Obligation The Feast of the Immaculate Conception *Bulgaria - Day of the Student (studentski praznik) *Romania - Constitution Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/8 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 7 - December 9 - November 8 - January 8 -- historical anniversaries la:8 Decembris
--User:Maveric149 00:56, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:December 8 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:December 8 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:December_8_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Why is Golda Meir a "former prime minister" but Willy Brandt just a "politician"?- BRG ---- Should John Lennon be under Deaths or Events? It seems to me an assassination is noteworthy enough to qualify as an event. ---- Moved birth from article: *1973 - Laura Mandaro, journalist Seems to exist (a business journalist), but not especially noteworthy. Am I missing something? User:Lupo 11:04, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC) What exactly is 1861 - gen. Borges southern hero shooted at Tagliacozzo closer to Rome during italian revolution by Savoy soldiers. supposed to mean? I'd like to change it to clarify, but I'm not sure what some parts of it mean. Would 1861 - General Borges, sothern hero of the Italian Revolution, was shot near Rome by Savoy soldiers. Be about right?
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December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining. ==Events== *1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin. *1886 - American Federation of Labor founded. *1888 - Bulgaria's National Assembly adopts an Act on establishing a higher school in Sofia. *1907 - King Gustav V of Sweden accedes to the Sweden throne *1914 - Battle of the Falkland Islands fought. *1941 - World War II: After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day, the Congress of the United States passes a declaration of war against Japan, bringing the United States officially into World War II; United States House of Representatives Jeannette Rankin casts the only "no" vote. In response, Adolf Hitler Germany declares war on the United States. *1941 - Holocaust: First Nazi use of gas vans on Jews, at the Chelmno camp near Lodz. *1949 - Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan *1961 - A fire at a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut kills 16 people. *1968 - NLS (computer system) (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco *1969 - An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people. *1976 - The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, ''Hotel California'' *1980 - Mark David Chapman murders former The Beatles John Lennon. *1987 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed. *1991 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus *1991 - First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum. *1993 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton. *1994 - US President Bill Clinton signs a bill enacting United States participation in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT was formally signed on April 15 1994, in Marrakesh, Morocco by 124 nations). * 1998 - 81 people killed by armed groups in the Tadjena massacre in Algeria. *2003 - The Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada officially merge to create the new Conservative Party of Canada. *2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations, a regional parliament, a common market and a common currency for South American nations. *2004 - Former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell is shot dead on stage with his new band Damageplan at a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. ==Births== *65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC) *1542 - Mary I of Scotland (d. 1587) *1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) *1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765) *1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, physiologist and botanist (d. 1799) *1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825) *1790 - Richard Carlille, reformer (d. 1843) *1813 - Adolf Kolping, theologian (d. 1865) *1815 - Adolph Menzel, painter and graphic artist (d. 1905) *1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (d. 1890) *1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author (d. 1910) *1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, author and folklorist (d. 1908) *1861 - Aristide Maillol, sculptor (d. 1944) * 1861 - William C. Durant, automobile pioneer (d. 1947) *1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921) *1864 - Camille Claudel, graphic artist (d. 1943) *1865 - Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957) *1886 - Diego Rivera, painter (d. 1957) *1890 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer (d. 1959) *1894 - James Thurber, writer (d. 1961) *1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (d. 1976) *1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) *1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997) *1923 - Rudolph Pariser, chemist *1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., actor and singer (d. 1990) *1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut *1930 - Maximilian Schell, actor, film director, and author *1933 - Flip Wilson, comedian (d. 1998) *1936 - David Carradine, actor *1937 - James MacArthur, actor * 1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004) *1939 - James Galway, Irish flutist *1943 - Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971) *1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress *1946 - John Rubinstein, actor and composer *1947 - Gregg Allman, musician *1950 - Rick Baker, film makeup artist *1953 - Kim Basinger, actress *1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, musician *1957 - Phil Collen, guitarist (Def Leppard) *1961 - Ann Coulter, author, political commentator, and attorney *1964 - Teri Hatcher, actress *1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, musician *1968 - Mike Mussina, baseball player *1976 - Dominic Monaghan, actor *1976 - Corey Taylor, musician (Slipknot) *1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer/songwriter *1978 - Ian Somerhalder, U.S. actor * 1978 - Vernon Wells, baseball player *1986 - Amir Khan (boxer), boxer ==Deaths== *899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850) *1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet *1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV *1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767) *1859 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785) *1864 - George Boole, mathematician *1907 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829) *1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer (b. 1836) *1952 - Charles Lightoller, second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874) *1958 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1888) *1978 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel *1980 - John Lennon, British musician, singer/songwriter, guitarist with The Beatles (b. October 9, 1940) *1982 - Marty Robbins, country music singer *1983 - Slim Pickens, actor *1984 - Luther Adler, American stage actor *1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917) *1996 - Howard Rollins Jr., actor *1999 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction editor (b. 1923) *2001 - Kurt Ruh, German scholar *2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922) *2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) *2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909) *2004 - Dimebag Darrell, guitarist (Damageplan and Pantera) (b. 1966) ==Holidays and observances== *Afflux (Discordian calendar) (Discordianism) *Buddhism - The Bodhi of Gautama Buddha *Catholic -Holy Day of Obligation The Feast of the Immaculate Conception *Bulgaria - Day of the Student (studentski praznik) *Romania - Constitution Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/8 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 7 - December 9 - November 8 - January 8 -- historical anniversaries la:8 Decembris
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--User:Maveric149 00:56, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:December 8 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:December 8 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:December_8_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Why is Golda Meir a "former prime minister" but Willy Brandt just a "politician"?- BRG ---- Should John Lennon be under Deaths or Events? It seems to me an assassination is noteworthy enough to qualify as an event. ---- Moved birth from article: *1973 - Laura Mandaro, journalist Seems to exist (a business journalist), but not especially noteworthy. Am I missing something? User:Lupo 11:04, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC) What exactly is 1861 - gen. Borges southern hero shooted at Tagliacozzo closer to Rome during italian revolution by Savoy soldiers. supposed to mean? I'd like to change it to clarify, but I'm not sure what some parts of it mean. Would 1861 - General Borges, sothern hero of the Italian Revolution, was shot near Rome by Savoy soldiers. Be about right?
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