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Today in History ~ December 8
Mother's Day in Panama
Events1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 - Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1813 - Ludwig van 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
1857 - 1st production of Dion Boucicault's "Poor of NY"
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
1874 - Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1881 - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter"
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1914 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
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
1930 - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
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
1940 - During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe--the German air force--launches a massive attack on London as night falls on London. For nearly 24 hours, the Luftwaffe rains tons of
bombs over the city, causing the first serious damage to the House of Commons and Tower of London.
1941 - Extermination Camp Chelmo opens
1941 - US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II on the day after the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1943 - John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in NYC
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 - Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan [H]
1949 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 performances
1951 - "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1954 - Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1963 - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1965 - Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in NYC
1967 - Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1969 - Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1974 - Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1975 - "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1980 - "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1982 - Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him -- he had no explosives
1987 - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in DC to sign the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
1991 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1992 - NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1993 - 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. NAFTA, a trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.
Birthdays Today
1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1731 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer
1765 - Eli Whitney (inventor: cotton gin and uniformity method of musket manufacturing: beginning of mass production)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 - Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
1886 - Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Mexico, painter
1894 - James Thurber (writer: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, My World and Welcome to It, The Last Flower, Is Sex Necessary?)
1903 - Adele Simpson (Smithline) (fashion designer)
1903 - Zoltan Szekely, composer
1918 - Gerard Souzay, Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
1925 - Hank (Henry) Thompson (baseball)
1925 - Jimmy Smith (modern jazz organist: Walk on the Wild Side)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr. (entertainer, singer: The Candy Man, What Kind of Fool Am I, Faraway Places; member: The Rat Pack)
1930 - Flip (Clerow) Wilson (comedian: The Flip Wilson Show: Geraldine: "The Devil Made Me Do It!")
1930 - Maximilian Schell (Academy Award-winning actor: Judgment at Nuremberg [1961]; The Odessa File)
1933 - John Green (basketball)
1936 - David Carradine (actor: Kung Fu; acting family: son of John, brother of Keith and Robert)
1937 - James MacArthur (actor: Hawaii Five-O: Dano of "Book 'em, Dano"; son of Helen Hayes)
1939 - James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
1939 - Jerry Butler (singer: For Your Precious Love, He Will Break Your Heart, Only the Strong Survive, group: The Impressions)
1943 - Jim Morrison ('The Lizard King': singer: group: The Doors: Light My Fire, Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm)
1946 - John Rubinstein (actor, singer)
1947 - Gregg Allman (musician: keyboards, guitar, vocal: group: Allman Brothers: Ramblin' Man; Cher's ex)
1950 - Tim Foli (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates)
1952 - Greg Collins (football)
1953 - Kim Basinger (actress: Hard Country, 9 1/2 Weeks, The Natural; former town owner: Braselton, GA; Mrs. Alec Baldwin)
Famous deaths
0644 - Omar I, 2nd kalif of Islam, murdered
0899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
1596 - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1643 - John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59
1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74
1785 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68
1924 - Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
1978 - Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980 - John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40 [H]
1992 - William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1993 - Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
1994 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67
1997 - Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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