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Highlights in History Which Occur December 8:
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
1845 Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
and German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
and K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free
of Original Sin
1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
and Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
and Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
and 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
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #441 Bathilde
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
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
and Labour/Liberals win British parliament
and Salary & price freeze in Germany
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1936 Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
and NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
and LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
and SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
and US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
and French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
and Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 16th Olympic games end in Melbourne
and 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
and Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
and Failed coup in Brunei
and Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
near Elkton, Maryland Only case of lightning caused crash
1964 R Burnham & N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3397
against liberalism, socialism & rationalism
1966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
and US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
and NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
and Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1980 "Bravo" network premiers on cable tv
and Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #2601 Bologna
1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
and Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash
and Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
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 goalee to actually score a goal
and Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
and Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
and President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1988 6.9 Earthquakes hit Armenia; about 60,000 die
and Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1992 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (í 3,5 km) is 3.6 million km from Earth
and Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
and NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile.
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, killing between
640 & 850 (Austria)
1963 3 fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
near Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused crash.
1972 United Airlines crash at Chicago's Midway Airport kills 45
including wife of E. Howard Hunt.
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
1845 Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
and German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
and K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free
of Original Sin
1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
and Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
and Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
and 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
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions
Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #441 Bathilde
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
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
and Labour/Liberals win British parliament
and Salary & price freeze in Germany
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1936 Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
and NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
and LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
and SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
and US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
and French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
and Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 16th Olympic games end in Melbourne
and 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
and Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
and Failed coup in Brunei
and Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
near Elkton, Maryland Only case of lightning caused crash
1964 R Burnham & N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3397
against liberalism, socialism & rationalism
1966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
and US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
and NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
and Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1980 "Bravo" network premiers on cable tv
and Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #2601 Bologna
1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
and Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash
and Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
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 goalee to actually score a goal
and Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
and Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
and President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a
treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1988 6.9 Earthquakes hit Armenia; about 60,000 die
and Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1992 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (í 3,5 km) is 3.6 million km from Earth
and Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
and NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile.
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, killing between
640 & 850 (Austria)
1963 3 fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing
near Elkton, Maryland. Only case of lightning caused crash.
1972 United Airlines crash at Chicago's Midway Airport kills 45
including wife of E. Howard Hunt.
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