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December 8 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 .1869 - Timothy Eaton founds the T. Eaton Co., in Toronto , Ontario , Canada , which would later become the Eaton's department store chain.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 Swedish throne.1914 - Battle of the Falkland Islands fought.1941 - World War II : After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan.1941 - World War II: The Japanese begin the invasion of the former British crown colony of Hong Kong less than 8 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
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 .1968 - NLS (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 Beatle John Lennon .1987 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed.1987 - Gunman Frank Vitovic shoots nine people dead and wounds five others at the Australia Post Building, Queen Street, Melbourne. Vitovic then kills himself by plunging five stories to his death.
1991 - Leaders of Russia , Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).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 .1998 - 81 people killed by armed groups in the Tadjena massacre in Algeria .2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco , Peru , establishing the South American Community of Nations .2004 - Former Pantera guitarist Darrell Abbott is shot dead on stage at a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio.
2004 - Population of Victoria (Australia) reaches 5 million for the first time.
Births
65 BC - Horace , Roman poet (d. 8 BC )1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587 )1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689 )1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton , English diplomat (d. 1757 )1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765 )1730 - Jan Ingenhousz , Dutch-born physiologist and botanist (d. 1799 )1765 - Eli Whitney , American inventor (d. 1825 )1815 - Adolph Menzel , German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905 )1816 - August Belmont, Sr. , Prussian-born financier (d. 1890 )1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910 )1848 - Joel Chandler Harris , American author and folklorist (d. 1908 )1861 - Aristide Maillol , French sculptor (d. 1944 )1861 - William C. Durant , American automobile pioneer (d. 1947 )
1862 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright (d. 1921 )1864 - Camille Claudel , French graphic artist (d. 1943 )1865 - Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer (d. 1957 )1886 - Diego Rivera , Mexican painter (d. 1957 )1890 - Bohuslav Martinů , Romanian composer (d. 1959 )1894 - James Thurber , American writer (d. 1961 )1911 - Lee J. Cobb , American actor (d. 1976 )1915 - Ernest Lehman , American screenwriter (d. 2005 )1918 - Gérard Souzay , French baritone (d. 2004 )1919 - Peter Tali Coleman , American politician (d. 1997 )1923 - Rudolph Pariser , Chinese-born chemist1925 - Sammy Davis Jr. , American actor and singer (d. 1990 )1927 - Vladimir Shatalov , cosmonaut1930 - Maximilian Schell , Austrian-born actor, film director, and author1933 - Flip Wilson , American comedian (d. 1998 )1936 - David Carradine , American actor1937 - James MacArthur , American actor1937 - Arne Næss Jr. , Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004 )
1939 - James Galway , Irish flutist1943 - Jim Morrison , American singer (The Doors ) (d. 1971 )1943 - Mary Woronov , American actress
1947 - Gregg Allman , American musician1947 - Thomas R. Cech , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 - Rick Baker , American film makeup artist1953 - Kim Basinger , American actress1956 - Warren Cuccurullo , American musician1957 - Phil Collen , British guitarist (Def Leppard )1961 - Ann Coulter , American author, political commentator, and attorney1962 - Marty Friedman , American guitarist1964 - Teri Hatcher , American actress1966 - Sinéad O'Connor , Irish musician1968 - Mike Mussina , baseball player1973 - Corey Taylor , American musician (Slipknot )1976 - Dominic Monaghan , German-born actor1976 - Naimee Coleman , Irish singer and songwriter1978 - Ian Somerhalder , American actor1978 - Vernon Wells , baseball player
1986 - Amir Khan , British boxer
Deaths
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850 )1626 - John Davies , English poet (b. 1569 )1632 - Philippe van Lansberge , Flemish astronomer (b. 1561 )1638 - Ivan Gundulic , Croatian poet (b. 1589 )1643 - John Pym , English statesman (b. 1583 )1649 - Noël Chabanel , French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613 )1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester , English politician (b. 1606 )1691 - Richard Baxter , English clergyman (b. 1615 )1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville , French orientalist (b. 1625 )1709 - Thomas Corneille , French dramatist (b. 1625 )1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz , Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV (b. 1652 )1745 - Etienne Fourmont , French orientalist (b. 1683 )1746 - Charles Radclyffe , British politician (b. 1693 )1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington , English statesman and diplomat1768 - Jean Denis Attiret , French Jesuit missionary and painter (b. 1702 )1830 - Benjamin Constant , Swiss writer (b. 1767 )1859 - Thomas de Quincey , English author (b. 1785 )1864 - George Boole , English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815 )1907 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829 )1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim , Russian-born writer (b. 1836 )1952 - Charles Lightoller , second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874 )1958 - Tris Speaker , baseball player (b. 1888 )1978 - Golda Meir , Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898 )1980 - John Lennon , British musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beatles ) (b. 1940 )1982 - Marty Robbins , American singer (b. 1925 )1983 - Slim Pickens , American actor (b. 1919 )1984 - Luther Adler , American actor (b. 1903 )1992 - William Shawn , American magazine or (b. 1917 )1994 - Tom Jobim , Brazilian composer and arranger (b. 1927 )1999 - Kuczka Péter , Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction or (b. 1923 )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 - Darrell Abbott , American guitarist (Damageplan and Pantera ) (b. 1966 )
Holidays and observances
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