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Today In History - December 8 |
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December 8, 1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from New Jersey |
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On This Date in History |
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1326 Daitokuji temple is established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi 1710 Battle at Brihuega 1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from NJ 1777 Captain Cook leaves the Society Islands 1792 The first cremation in U.S., Henry Laurens 1794 The first issue of Herald of Rutland, VT is published 1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A premieres 1849 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception: makes Mary free of Original Sin 1863 Abraham Lincoln announces his plan for Reconstruction of South 1863 A Jesuit church in Chile catches fire and 2,500 people die in the panic 1863 President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters 1864 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura 1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council opens in Rome 1874 Jesse James gang takes a train at Muncie, Kansas 1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal, South-Africa 1881 Vienna's Ring Theater is destroyed by fire: kills between 640-850 people 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) is formed by 26 craft unions 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi 1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became the Associate Justice on the Supreme Court 1909 The Bird banding society is founded 1913 Construction starts on the Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1914 British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1923 A German-US friendship treaty signed 1923 Labour/Liberals win the British parliament 1923 Salary and price freeze in Germany 1930 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway in New York City 1931 Coaxial cable is patented 1936 Anastasio Somoza is elected President of Nicaragua 1936 NAACP files suit to equalize the salaries of black and white teachers 1941 The Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo 1941 San Francisco's first blackout 1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan: the U.S. enters WW II 1948 Jordan annexes Arabic Palestine 1949 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 740 performances 1949 The Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1952 The first TV acknowledgement of pregnancy: I Love Lucy show 1952 French troops fire on demonstrators at Casablanca: 50 people die 1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi is elected President of Israel 1955 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award 1955 The Turkish government of Menderes forms 1956 The 16th Olympic Games close at Melbourne, Australia 1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta 1962 A 114-day long newspaper strike begins in New York City 1963 Three fuel tanks explode when a jetliner is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland: 81 people die 1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of the U.S.S.R. 1965 Pope Paul VI signs the 2nd Vatican council 1966 The US and U.S.S.R. sign a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space 1967 The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK 1969 A Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed 1969 Police surprise attack on the Black Panthers in LA 1972 A United Airlines flight crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 1974 A Greek monarchy is rejected by referendum 1974 The Irish Republican Socialist Party forms 1974 Sandra Post wins the LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open 1976 U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General 1976 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 Portugal's premier Soares resigns 1980 Bravo network premieres on cable TV 1981 France performs a nuclear test 1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him: he had no explosives 1984 Europe and 64 developing countries sign the Lome III treaty 1984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live 1986 House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as the 48th speaker 1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" against Israel 1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1989 Great Britain performs a nuclear test 1991 Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins the LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter: 303 km 1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May of 1993 1993 30 people are killed at religious rebellion in Algeria 1993 The 4th Billboard Music Awards 1993 The Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53 1993 A Storm hits West Europe: 11 people are killed in England 1994 Darryl Strawberry is indicted on tax evasion charges 1994 Fire in a cinema in Karamay China kills 310 people 1996 Donna Andrews and Mike Hulbert win the LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1997 The 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1508 Gemma Frisius 1704 Anton de Haen 1708 Francis I, Holy Roman emperor 1715 John Althuysen 1731 Frantisek Xaver Dusek 1737 Robert Kimmerling 1744 Pierre Joseph Candielle 1765 Eli Whitney 1789 John Fawcett 1795 Jacques Francois Gallay 1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser 1822 Luther Prentice Bradley 1826 Friedrich Siemens 1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk 1828 Robert Bullock 1832 Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1861 Aristide Maillol 1861 Georges Melies 1861 William Crapo Durant 1862 Georges Feydeau 1865 Jacques Hadamard 1865 Jean Sibelius 1881 Padraic Colum 1882 Manuel Maria Ponce 1886 Diego Rivera 1887 Vicente Emilio Sojo 1888 Fiske Kimball 1888 Paul Cavanagh 1888 Vesey D'Davoren 1889 W. Hervey Allen 1890 Bohuslav Jan Martinu 1890 Bohuslav Martinu 1894 James Thurber 1897 Leslie Heward 1899 John Qualen 1899 Sarah Williamson 1903 Adele Simpson 1903 Cleo Brown 1903 Irene Eisinger 1905 Charles Cushing 1905 Ernst Hermann Meyer 1905 Frank Faylen 1905 Julius Silverman 1906 Richard Llewellyn 1907 Tony Aubin 1908 John Volpe 1911 Lee J Cobb 1912 Jura Soyfer 1913 Delmore Schwartz 1913 Paul Felix 1915 Denis Harding 1915 George Scheuer 1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard 1917 Rufo I. Wever 1918 Gerard Souzay 1918 Ian Johnson 1921 Johnny Otis 1921 Terence Morgan 1921 Terence Weil 1922 George Fullerton 1922 Jean Ritchie 1922 John B. McKay 1922 Lucian Freud 1925 James E. "Jimmy" Smith 1925 Sammy Davis, Jr. 1927 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov 1929 Goffredo Parise 1930 Alain Weber 1930 John Morressy 1930 Maximilian Schell 1931 Rudolf Komorous 1933 Flip Wilson 1936 David Carradine 1936 Peter Parfitt 1936 W S "Buster" Farrer 1937 James MacArthur 1937 Jan van Houwelingen 1939 James Galway 1939 Jerry Butler 1939 Lynn Wilson 1940 Graham Knight 1940 Jenny Linden 1940 Nick Nolte 1941 Geoff Hurst 1942 Bobby Elliot 1942 Hemant Kanitkar 1942 Mario Savio 1943 Jim Morrison 1943 Mary Woronov 1943 Michael Unger 1946 Graham Knight 1946 John Rubinstein 1947 Belinda Balaski 1947 Frans Leijnse 1947 Geoff Daking 1947 Gregg Allman 1949 Mary Gordon 1949 Ray Shulman 1950 Dan Hartman 1950 Rick Baker 1952 Richie Morales 1952 Sam Kinison 1953 Kim Basinger 1953 Roy Firestone 1955 Ian Greig 1956 Warren Cuccurullo 1957 Phll Collen 1958 Billy Hufsey 1958 Wayne Dickert 1959 Mark Dickson 1959 Marty Raybon 1959 Paul Rutherford 1961 Ann Coulter 1962 Berry van Aerle 1962 Stephen John Elkington 1964 James Martinez 1964 Teri Hatcher 1965 Greg Truitt 1965 Teresa Weatherspoon 1965 Troy Sadowski 1966 Douglas Allan Martin 1966 Joe Staysniak 1966 Matthew Laborteaux 1966 Sinead O'Connor 1967 Jeff George 1967 Marina Augusta Baker 1967 Ron George 1967 Tony Mayberry 1968 Bill Johnson 1968 Mike Mussina 1969 Antoon Kuil 1969 Bobby Phillips 1969 Darrin Shannon 1969 Lisa Marie Munzert 1969 Victor Green 1971 Garvin Alston 1971 James Stewart 1973 Mitch Jacoby 1973 Monty Montgomery 1974 Paul Staight 1976 Dominic Monaghan 1978 Kate Robinson |
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