Notable Historical Events on December 8th
December 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1326 |
Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi |
1609 |
Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe. |
1659 |
Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco. |
1710 |
Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession: British General James Stanhope captured by French & Spanish forces |
1776 |
George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ |
1777 |
Captain Cook leaves Society Islands |
1792 |
1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens |
1794 |
1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published |
1813 |
Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres |
1846 |
Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres |
1849 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples |
1852 |
Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau |
1854 |
Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin |
1857 |
1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" |
1863 |
2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile |
1863 |
Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South |
1864 |
Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum") |
1869 |
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome |
1869 |
Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada. |
1874 |
Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas |
1875 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg |
1876 |
Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years |
1880 |
5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa |
1881 |
Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 |
1886 |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
1895 |
Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out |
1896 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG) |
1902 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court |
1907 |
King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. |
1909 |
Bird banding society found |
1913 |
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF |
1914 |
British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island |
1914 |
Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox |
1914 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC |
1914 |
Boers rebelling against the British have recently suffered several defeats; today, one of their leaders, General Beyers, accidently drowns |
1915 |
Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres |
1915 |
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine |
1921 |
Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty |
1923 |
German-US friendship treaty signed |
1923 |
Labour/Liberals win British parliament |
1923 |
Salary & price freeze in Germany |
1930 |
Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC |
1930 |
Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Coaxial cable patented |
1934 |
Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zurich |
1935 |
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi. |
1936 |
Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua |
1936 |
NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers |
1938 |
Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif |
1938 |
LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police |
1940 |
1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 |
1941 |
Destruction Camp Chelmo opens |
1941 |
London: Dutch government declares war on Japan |
1941 |
Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
1941 |
SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM |
1941 |
US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II |
1941 |
President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour |
1942 |
8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB) |
1943 |
John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC |
1946 |
Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
1947 |
"Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs |
1948 |
"Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances |
1948 |
14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB) |
1948 |
Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine |
1949 |
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs |
1949 |
Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa |
1949 |
Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres in NYC |
1949 |
"On the Town", the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, is released |
1951 |
"Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs |
1951 |
AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games |
1952 |
1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) |
1952 |
French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
1952 |
Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel |
1953 |
19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB) |
1953 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in New York. |
1954 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC |
1954 |
WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB) |
1955 |
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award |
1955 |
Turkish government of Menderes forms |
1956 |
16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia |
1956 |
1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0 |
1956 |
Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks |
1959 |
Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta |
1959 |
President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi |
1960 |
Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium |
1961 |
Antwerp Belgium diocese forms |
1961 |
Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec) |
1961 |
South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock |
1961 |
Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78 |
1962 |
"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs |
1962 |
114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC |
1962 |
Failed coup in Brunei |
1962 |
Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft) |
1963 |
"Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs |
1963 |
Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf |
1963 |
Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed. Only case of lighting causing air crash |
1965 |
Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC |
1965 |
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council |
1966 |
A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith |
1966 |
US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
1967 |
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK |
1967 |
NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals |
1969 |
Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed |
1969 |
Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA |
1970 |
Head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal William Conway publishes a pamphlet on the topic of segregation in education in Northern Ireland |
1972 |
United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 |
1973 |
"Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances |
1973 |
39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) |
1974 |
Greek monarchy rejected by referendum |
1974 |
Irish Republican Socialist Party forms |
1974 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
1974 |
Soyuz 16 returns to Earth |
1975 |
"Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances |
1976 |
UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB) |
1977 |
Portugal's premier Soares resigns |
1978 |
Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park |
1980 |
"Bravo" network premieres on cable TV |
1980 |
Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test |
1982 |
"Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs |
1982 |
Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot |
1982 |
Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
1982 |
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives) |
1983 |
9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6, lands at Edwards AFB |
1983 |
Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center |
1984 |
73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62) |
1984 |
Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty |
1984 |
Ringo Starr appears on Saturday Night Live |
1985 |
60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62) |
1985 |
Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker |
1985 |
Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1986 |
House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker |
1987 |
Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal |
1987 |
Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
1987 |
Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel |
1987 |
US President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles |
1987 |
The Alianza Lima air disaster. |
1988 |
Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109 |
1989 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1990 |
Galileo Earth-1 Flyby |
1990 |
Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
1991 |
"Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1991 |
"Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1991 |
Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1991 |
Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States |
1991 |
The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum. |
1992 |
Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) |
1992 |
NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993 |
1993 |
30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria |
1993 |
4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win |
1993 |
Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53 |
1993 |
Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England |
1994 |
"What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per |
1994 |
Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges |
1994 |
Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed |
1996 |
"God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances |
1996 |
Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1997 |
8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win |
1998 |
Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. |
2002 |
The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba. |
2004 |
The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. |
2005 |
Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. |
2008 |
Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales. |
2009 |
Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448. |
2010 |
With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. |
2012 |
UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 |
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