Page 4: Historical Events In December - 08

1916  On December - 08 dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep   

1917  On December - 08 rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ)   

1918  Ian Johnson, cricketer (Australian Test captbetween Hassett & Craig) on December - 08.   

1919  On December - 08 hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer   

1920  Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952) on December - 08.   

1921  Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty on December - 08.   

1921  Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up) on December - 08.   

1922  On December - 08 george Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51)   

1923  German-US friendship treaty signed on this day in history.   

1923  On December - 08 rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist   

1923  On December - 08 dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88   

1924  On this day in history franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74   

1925  Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer was born on this day on this day in history.   

1925  On December - 08 the birth of Sammy Davis Jr., American actor   

1925  On December - 08 james E "Jimmy" Smith, US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)   

1925  Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer: was born on this day on this day in history.   

1926  On December - 08 disappearance of Agatha Christie   

1926  Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies on this day in history.   

1927  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10) on December - 08.   

1930  On this day in history broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC   

1931  Coaxial cable patented on this day in history.   

1933  On this day in history flip (Clerow) Wilson Emmy Award-winning comedy writer was born   

1933  On December - 08 secretary of the Navy establishes Fleet Marine Force, integrating a ready-to-deploy Marine force with own aircraft into Fleet organization.   

1934  On this day in history friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich   

1934  On December - 08 bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62   

1935  On this day in history the Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.   

1936  Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua on December - 08.   

1938  Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif on December - 08.   

1939  Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history german Luftwaffe launches massive attack on London   

1940  On this day in history 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0   

1941  As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declare war on Japan on December - 08.   

1941  US declares war on Japan on this day in history.   

1941  USS Wake (PR-3), a river gunboat moored at Shanghai, is only U.S. vessel to surrender during World War II on December - 08.   

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1508  Gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer was born on December - 08.   

1574  On December - 08 birth of maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)   

1626  On this day in history birth of christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic   

1678  Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.   

1699  Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.   

1704  On December - 08 birth of anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)   

1708  Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765) was born on December - 08.   

1715  On this day in history birth of john Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)   

0644  On this day in history death of omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered   

0899  Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies on this day in history.   

1292  On this day in history john Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62   

1587  On December - 08 death of mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed   

1596  Death of Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico on this day in history.   

1626  On December - 08 death of john Davies, English poet (b. 1569)   

1632  Death of Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561) on December - 08.   

1643  John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 on December - 08.