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>> Events, deaths, births, of 08 DEC [For Dec 08 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Dec 18 1700s: Dec 19 1800s: Dec 20 1900~2099: Dec 21] |
1987 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories
start "intifadah" (uprising) against Israel 1987 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the INF Treaty which provides for the dismantling of all US and Soviet missiles with ranges of 480 to 5500 km
1981 In one of its major rulings regarding the issue of the separation of Church and State, the US Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of student organizations holding religious services at public colleges and universities. 1981 Mitsubishi Motors, of the huge Mitsubishi conglomerate of Japan, begins selling cars in the US under its own name. Previously, it had done business in the US only in partnerships with American automakers. 1979 The Oneida Nation files suit in an effort to regain control of the over one million hectares taken by New York state. |
1966 The United States and the Soviet Union sign a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.
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1963 3 fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by
lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused
crash. 1952 Hundreds of persons in London, choked by the Great Killer Fog which settled on 05 December and fed by intensified millions of home coal fires, as the temperature drops, has only gotten worse.
1943 Le général De Gaulle, qui préside à Alger le Comité français de libération nationale, prévient de son intention de reconquérir l'Indochine après la défaite de Hitler et de son allié japonais. Dépités, les résistants vietnamiens se préparent à de nouvelles luttes. 1944 The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. 1941 Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore. |
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1931 Coaxial cable patented 1929 Ship-to-shore mobile telephone commercial service is initiated as the president of AT&T in New York City called the SS Leviathan at sea. Later that day, an advertising executive calls a passenger aboard the ship, in the first-ever private ship-to-shore call. Calls cost between $7 and $11 per minute. 1920 President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva. 1902Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is named Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court. 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter 1886 The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio, with Samuel Gompers elected the first president. |
1861 CSS Sumter seizes Northern whaler Eben Dodge in mid-Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry. 1860 Angered by Abraham Lincoln's election to the residency, Howell Cobb resigns as Secretary of the Treasury. The politician from Georgia then becomes a leader in the Confederacy movement and later serves as a major general in the rebel army. 1854 Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in his apostolic letter, Ineffabilis Deus. It asserted that by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, Mary was freed from original sin "in the first instant of conception. 1776 George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. [Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting of [Washington Crossing the Delaware, in the other direction to attack the Hessians at Trenton on 25 December 1776]. 1630 John Williams embarks secretly on a ship bound for American, hoping to escape the persecution that has plagued him in England. Persecuted also in the New World, he flees into Indian territory, purchases land, and founds Providence, later to become the capital of the state Rhode Island.
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Deaths
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1939 Jean Grave, French anarchist, author of La
société mourante et l'anarchie (1892), for which he was sentenced to
two years in prison, and Mouvement libertaire sous la IIIe république.
1919 Julian Alden Weir, painter, etcher and lithographer; born on 30 August 1852, one of earliest US impressionists. MORE ON WEIR AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images. 1914 German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig, sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. 1910 Jean-Baptiste Robie, Belgian artist born on 21 November 1821. 1894 Pafnuty Chebyshev, mathematician. 1881 Some 640 to 850 people in fire and stampede at Vienna's Ring Theater, started when a lamplighter brushes the scenery on the stage.
1859 Thomas De Quincey, 74, at Lasswade, near Edinburgh, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. / http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~bpn2f/opium.htm / http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Ludlow/People/deq.html http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/dequinc1.htm / http://www.who2.com/thomasdequincey.html
1818 Friedrich-Heinrich Füger, Austrian painter born on 05 November 1751. MORE ON FÜGER AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images.
1681 Gerard Ter Borch II, Dutch painter born in 1617. MORE ON TER BORCH AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images. 1596 Luis de Carvajal, and his mother and sisters, Mexican Jews, burned at the stake. 1292 John Pecham, Archbishop of Canterbury and science popularizer. |
Births which
occurred on a December 08: 1922 Lucian Freud Berlin German artist. MORE ON FREUD AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images. 1919 Julia Robinson, mathematician. 1913 Delmore Schwartz US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah) 1908 John Volpe (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73) 1906 Richard Llewellyn Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley) 1902 Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist who died in 1982. — more with links to images.
1889 William Hervey Allen Jr., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,.poet, biographer, and novelist who had a great impact on popular literature with his historical novel Anthony Adverse, a rambling work set in Europe, Africa, & the Americas during the Napoleonic era. Allen died on 28 December 1949.
1883 Lugwig Berwald, mathematician. 1882 Manuel Maria Ponce Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita) 1881 Padraic Colum Irish poet / novelist (Collected Poems). COLUM ONLINE: The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said, The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 1881 Albert Gleizes, French artist who died on 24 June 1953. — more with link to images.
1858 Vincenzo Migliaro, Italian artist who died in 1938. 1851 Claude Emile Schuffenecker, French artist who died in August 1934. 1850 Luigi Nono, Italian artist who died on 17 October 1918. 1861 William Crapo Durant, who would found General Motors. 1861 Georges Méliès, à Paris. Magicien, il va découvrir le cinéma inventé par les frères Lumière et fera de cette attraction de foire un Septième Art. 1832 Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, novelist (Nobel--1903).BJORNSON ONLINE: A Happy Boy. 1828 Joseph Dietzgen, near Cologne, Germany. Important socialist theorist whose writings exerted considerable influence on the workers' movement. Wrote The Nature of Human Brain-Work (1869). He said: "While the anarchists may have mad & brainless individuals in their ranks, the socialists have an abundance of cowards. For this reason I care as much for one as the other. 1826 Silvestro Lega, Italian painter who died on 21 September (21 Nov?) 1895 MORE ON LEGA AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images. |
1815 Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel,
German Realist painter who died on 09 February 1905. — more
with links to images.
1765 Eli Whitney, inventor: cotton gin and uniformity method of musket manufacturing: beginning of mass production. 1708 Francis I Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765) 1632 Albert Girard, mathematician. 1632 Lansberge, mathematician. 1626 Christina queen of Sweden (1644-54)who abdicated after becoming Catholic 1614 (baptism) Gonzales Coques, Flemish painter specialized in portraits, who died on 18 April 1684. MORE ON COQUES AT ART 4 DECEMBER with links to images. 1587 Marten Ryckaert, Flemish artist who died on 11 October 1631. — LINKS
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