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Events from History on December 08

xxxx : Buddha Shakyamuni's finds Zen enlightenment at Bodh Gaya India
1326 : Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1710 : Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1776 : George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 : Capt 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
1854 : of Original Sin
1857 : 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 : 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
1863 : Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
1863 : Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
1863 : Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
1864 : Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 : 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
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
1886 : Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1895 : Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian
1895 : general Baratieri's out
1896 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 : Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
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
1915 : Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
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 Zrich
1936 : Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
1936 : NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 : LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1941 : Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 : London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
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
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 govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 : Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," premieres in NYC
1951 : "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
1951 : AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's
1951 : 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)
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 govt 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
1960 : Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 : Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 : S Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
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 : 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
1963 : near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1964 : against liberalism, socialism & rationalism
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
1969 : Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 : Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
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 : 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
1980 : "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
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 : Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash
1982 : Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1982 : Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
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 : Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lom‚ III treaty
1984 : Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
1985 : Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1986 : House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 : Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 : Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 : President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
1987 : treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
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 : Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1992 : Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (í 3,5 km) is 3.6 million km from Earth
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
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
1997 : 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win

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