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08 Dec 1326
Daitokuji temple Rinzai line established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
08 Dec 1609
Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe.
08 Dec 1659
Mexican border town Ciudad Jurez is founded by Fray Garca de San Francisco.
08 Dec 1710
Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession British General James Stanhope captured by French & Spanish forces
08 Dec 1846
Hector Berliozs La Damnation de Faust premieres
08 Dec 1852
Gustav Freytags Die Journalisten premieres in Breslau
08 Dec 1854
Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception makes Mary free of Original Sin
08 Dec 1857
1st production of Dion Boucicaults Poor of New York
08 Dec 1863
2500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile
08 Dec 1864
Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura (Syllabus errorum)
08 Dec 1869
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican I opens in Rome
08 Dec 1869
Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto Canada.
08 Dec 1875
Aleksandr Ostrovskys Volki i Ovsty premieres in St Petersburg
08 Dec 1876
Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
08 Dec 1880
5000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa
08 Dec 1881
Viennas Ring Theater destroyed by fire kills between 640-850
08 Dec 1895
Battle at Amba Alagi Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out
08 Dec 1896
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter (BG)
08 Dec 1907
King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
08 Dec 1913
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
08 Dec 1914
Battle of the Falkland Island British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron
08 Dec 1914
Boers rebelling against the British have recently suffered several defeats today one of their leaders General Beyers accidently drowns
08 Dec 1921
Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
08 Dec 1930
Cole Porters musical NYCers premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1934
Friedrich Wolfs Professor Mamlock premieres in Zurich
08 Dec 1935
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto beginning with a crackdown on the sects operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
08 Dec 1936
Anastasio Somoza Garca elected President of Nicaragua
08 Dec 1936
NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
08 Dec 1938
Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
08 Dec 1938
LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
08 Dec 1940
1st NFL championship on national radio Bears beat Redskins 73-0
08 Dec 1941
Chemno extermination camp opens 50 kilometres from d Poland
08 Dec 1941
London Dutch government-in-exile declares war on Japan
08 Dec 1941
US & Britain declare war on Japan US enters WW II
08 Dec 1942
8th Heisman Trophy Award Frank Sinkwich Georgia (HB)
08 Dec 1943
John Van Drutens Voice of the Turtle premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1946
US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
08 Dec 1947
Caribbean Carnival opens at International Theater NYC for 11 performances
08 Dec 1948
Marinka closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
08 Dec 1948
14th Heisman Trophy Award Doak Walker SMU (HB)
08 Dec 1949
Jule Stynes Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 performances
08 Dec 1949
Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
08 Dec 1951
Tree Grows in Brooklyn closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
08 Dec 1951
AL alters its restrictions on night games adopting NLs suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
08 Dec 1952
1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
08 Dec 1952
French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca 50 die
08 Dec 1953
19th Heisman Trophy Award John Lattner Notre Dame (HB)
08 Dec 1954
Maxwell Andersons Bad Seed premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1954
WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Dec 1955
21st Heisman Trophy Award Howard Cassady Ohio State (HB)
08 Dec 1956
1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program TV-0
08 Dec 1956
Guy Mitchells Singing the Blues single goes 1 for 10 weeks
08 Dec 1956
Start of an Olympic tradition amidst international tensions athletes mingle together as they parade into and around arena for a final appearance to close Melbourne Games
08 Dec 1959
President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
08 Dec 1960
Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
08 Dec 1961
Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
08 Dec 1961
South Africa v NZ Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
08 Dec 1962
I Can Get It For You Wholesale closes at Shubert NYC after 300 performances
08 Dec 1962
Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk Delft)
08 Dec 1963
Girl Who Came to Supper opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 performances
08 Dec 1963
Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton Maryland with 81 killed
08 Dec 1965
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
08 Dec 1966
US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
08 Dec 1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album is released in UK
08 Dec 1967
NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
08 Dec 1969
Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens 93 killed
08 Dec 1969
Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
08 Dec 1970
Head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal William Conway publishes a pamphlet on the topic of segregation in education in Northern Ireland
08 Dec 1972
United Airlines crashes at Chicagos Midway Airport killing 45
08 Dec 1973
Seesaw closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
08 Dec 1973
39th Heisman Trophy Award John Cappelletti Penn State (RB)
08 Dec 1973
Romanian tennis star Ilie Nstase wins his 3rd consecutive season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title with a 63 75 46 63 win over Dutchman Tom Okker in Boston Massachusetts
08 Dec 1975
Raisin closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
08 Dec 1976
UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General
08 Dec 1977
43rd Heisman Trophy Award Earl Campbell Texas (RB)
08 Dec 1978
Commencement of the 1st daynight World Series Cricket supertest at VFL Park Melbourne
08 Dec 1982
Herman Van Veen All of Him opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
08 Dec 1982
Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
08 Dec 1982
Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
08 Dec 1982
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
08 Dec 1983
9th Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 lands at Edwards AFB
08 Dec 1983
Richard Baker Zen teacher steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center
08 Dec 1984
Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
08 Dec 1985
Ken OBriens 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
08 Dec 1985
Laurie RinkerLarry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
08 Dec 1985
74th Mens Australian Open Stefan Edberg beats Mats Wilander (6-3 6-3 6-3)
08 Dec 1985
74th Womens Australian Open Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-2 4-6 6-2)
08 Dec 1985
NBC premiere of thriller Final Jeopardy starring Richard Thomas and Mary Crosby
08 Dec 1986
House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
08 Dec 1986
NBC premiere of miniseries Anastasia The Mystery of Anna (Part 2)
08 Dec 1987
Occupied Palestinians start intefadeh (uprising) against Israel
08 Dec 1988
Knicks set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks 113-109
08 Dec 1990
Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
08 Dec 1991
Homecoming closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
08 Dec 1991
Nick & Nora opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
08 Dec 1991
Kris TschetterBilly Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
08 Dec 1991
Russia Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
08 Dec 1991
The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
08 Dec 1992
Galileos nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
08 Dec 1992
NBC announces that Cheers will go off the air in May 1993
08 Dec 1993
Storm hits western Europe 11 killed in England
08 Dec 1994
Whats Wrong With this Picture opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
08 Dec 1996
God Said Ha closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
08 Dec 1996
Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
08 Dec 1998
Tadjena massacre 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
08 Dec 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.
08 Dec 2004
The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco Peru establishing the South American Community of Nations.
08 Dec 2005
Ante Gotovina Croatian army general accused of war crimes is captured in the Playa de las Amricas Tenerife by the Spanish police.
08 Dec 2007
73rd Heisman Trophy Award Tim Tebow Florida (QB)
08 Dec 2008
Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales.
08 Dec 2009
Bombings in Baghdad Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
08 Dec 2011
The NBA and players union reach financial agreement to end a 161-day lockout shortening the season by 16 games
08 Dec 2012
UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
08 Dec 1609
Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan opens its reading room second public library in Europe
08 Dec 1940
National Football League Championship Griffith Stadium Washington D.C. Chicago Bears beat Washington Redskins 73-0 most one-sided victory in NFL history first NFL title game broadcast on national radio
08 Dec 1941
US and Britain declare war on Japan US enters World War II
08 Dec 1956
XVI Summer Olympic Games close in Melbourne Australia start of an Olympic tradition - amidst international tensions athletes mingle together parade into and around MCG arena for final appearance to close the Games
08 Dec 1966
US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
08 Dec 2004
Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco Peru establishing the Union of South American Nations
08 Dec 2018
84th Heisman Trophy Award Kyler Murray Oklahoma (QB)
08 Dec 1914
Boers rebelling against the British in South Africa suffer several defeats with one of their leaders General Beyers accidentally drowning
08 Dec 1933
French nun Bernadette Soubirous who saw the vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes is canonized by the Catholic Church
08 Dec 1953
19th Heisman Trophy Award Johnny Lattner Notre Dame (HB)
08 Dec 1987
Peruvian Navy Fokker F27-400M chartered by Alianza Lima FC crashes into Pacific Ocean 7 miles from Jorge Chvez International Airport near Callao 43 killed only pilot survives
08 Dec 2019
Fire in an illegal bag factory in Delhi India kills 43
08 Dec 2019
Polar explorers Mike Horn and Brge Ousland complete an 1800 km (1118 miles) journey on drifting ice in darkness in the Arctic
08 Dec 2019
Vienna State Opera stages its first show by a female composer in 150 years - Olga Neuwirths opera Orlando
08 Dec 2019
South African Zozibini Tunzi crowned Miss Universe in Atlanta
08 Dec 2019
Sanna Marin becomes Finlands youngest-ever Prime Minister at the age of 34
08 Dec 1881
Viennas Ring Theater destroyed by gaslight fire killing an estimated 384-1000 people
08 Dec 1960
MLB expansion team Los Angeles Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
08 Dec 1963
Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped at Harrahs Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
08 Dec 1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour EP is released in UK issued in US as an album including additional singles from
08 Dec 1975
Radio station 4ZZZ begins transmitting in Brisbane Queensland Australia at 105.7 FM frequency changes to 102.1 FM in 1978
08 Dec 1976
Asylum Records releases The Eagles fifth studio album Hotel California it spawns two 1 singles and sells over 30 million copies
08 Dec 1990
Spacecraft Galileo flies by Earth at an altitude of 597 miles (960 km) to use the planets gravity to build speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
08 Dec 1992
Spacecraft Galileo makes its second and closest flyby of Earth at a minimum distance of 305 km for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter [1]
08 Dec 1995
Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the Munich Philharmonic for the premiere of his Symphony No. 3
08 Dec 2020
The UK begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the PfizerBioNTech vaccine
08 Dec 2020
Former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed says Aliens and a Galactic Federation exist and Donald Trump knows about it in article published in the Jerusalem Post
08 Dec 1965
Abe Burrows play Cactus Flower premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1983
9th NASA Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 lands at Edwards AFB
08 Dec 1999
10th Billboard Music Awards Brittney Spears Backstreet Boys and Creed win
08 Dec 1852
Gustav Freytags comedy play The Journalists premieres in Breslau
08 Dec 1925
George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlins musical The Cocoanuts starring the Marx Brothers opens at the Lyric Theatre NYC runs for 276 performances
08 Dec 1948
Emmerich Klmns dramatic operetta Marinka closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (after transfer from Winter Garden Theater) NYC. after 168 performances
08 Dec 1949
Jule Styne and Leo Robins musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Carol Channing opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC runs for 740 performances
08 Dec 1952
French troops shoot at anti-colonial demonstrators in Casablanca Morocco killing 50
08 Dec 1959
Baseballs new Continental League awards its 6th franchise to Atlanta Georgia
08 Dec 1965
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
08 Dec 1982
Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse orders the murders 15 opponents to his military regime
08 Dec 1986
US House of Representative Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
08 Dec 1990
NASA discovers life on Earth - in famous control experiment looking for alien life using spacecraft Galileos gravity assist fly-by Earth at close altitude of 597 miles (960 km) on its way to Jupiter [1] [2]
08 Dec 2022
American basketball star Brittany Griner is released by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout Griner detained on drug smuggling charges since February
08 Dec 2022
Iran announces first known execution of a protester from recent anti-government unrest after convicting a man in a revolutionary court of moharebeh (enmity against God) [1]
08 Dec 2022
UN investigation in DR Congo finds 131 people were massacred in November by M23 rebel group in Kishishe and Bambo villages in east of the country [1]
08 Dec 1956
XVI Summer Olympic Games close at the MCG in Melbourne Australia start of an Olympic tradition - amidst international tensions athletes mingle together parade into and around MCG arena for final appearance to close the Games
08 Dec 1961
Construction workers top off the Space Needle in Seattle Washington less 8 months after work began
08 Dec 1993
Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 3734.53
08 Dec 2021
Olaf Scholz is sworn as the new Chancellor of Germany replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years
08 Dec 2023
Exhibition The Art of Zen featuring ink painting Persimmons the Zen Mona Lisa by 13th century Chinese monk Muqi opens In San Francisco [1]
08 Dec 1875
Aleksandr Ostrovskys play Volki i Ovsty (Wolves and Sheep) premieres at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg Russia
08 Dec 1907
Gustaf V of Sweden becomes King of Sweden (-50)
08 Dec 1914
Irving Berlins musical Watch your Step premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1946
US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes its first powered flight
08 Dec 1948
14th Heisman Trophy Award for US college football awarded to halfback Doak Walker of SMU
08 Dec 1952
First TV acknowledgment of a pregnancy in the I Love Lucy episode Lucy is Enceinte which incorporates Lucys real-life pregnancy into the storyline
08 Dec 1954
Maxwell Andersons play Bad Seed based on the book by William March premieres in NYC
08 Dec 1955
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
08 Dec 1961
Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive points without a miss for the Syracuse Nationals setting an NBA record
08 Dec 1966
New York Yankee trade outfielder Roger Maris to St Louis Cardinals for Charlie Smith
08 Dec 1982
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage demanding an end to nuclear weapons and is killed by police after 10 hours (he had no explosives)
08 Dec 1984
Ringo Starr hosts Saturday Night Live Herbie Hancock is the musical guest
08 Dec 1986
US House of Representative Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th Speaker of the House
08 Dec 1994
Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
08 Dec 1995
Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the Munich Philharmonic in premiere of his Symphony No. 3
08 Dec 2018
Brian Ortega fights Max Holloway at UFC 231 and loses by doctor stoppage earning Fight of the Night
08 Dec 2019
Vienna State Opera stages its first show by a female composer in 150 years Olga Neuwirths opera Orlando
08 Dec 2022
Canadian pop singer Celine Dion reveals via Instagram that she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) a rare neurological disorder
08 Dec 2023
Kawhi Leonard scores a season-high 41 points in a win over the Utah Jazz
08 Dec 2024
Classic Baseball Era Committee of National Baseball Hall elects Philadelphia PhilliesChicago White Sox Dick Allen and Pittsburgh PiratesOakland Athletics Dave Parker for inclusion
08 Dec 2024
Dutch driver Max Verstappen finishes 6th in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP to claim his 4th consecutive World F1 title Lando Norris wins the race as McLaren takes Constructors Cship for first time in 26 years