Historical Events In December - 08

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

1917  Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ) on December - 08.  

1918  Ian Johnson, cricketer (Australian Test captbetween Hassett & Craig) on this day in history.  

1919  On this day in history hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer  

1920  On this day in history emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)  

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

1921  On December - 08 johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)  

1922  On this day in history george Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51)  

1923  On this day in history german-US friendship treaty signed  

1923  Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist on December - 08.  

1923  Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88 on December - 08.  

1924  Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1925  Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer was born on this day on December - 08.  

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

1925  On this day in history 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  Disappearance of Agatha Christie on this day in history.  

1926  Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies on December - 08.  

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  Flip (Clerow) Wilson Emmy Award-winning comedy writer was born on December - 08.  

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  Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich on December - 08.  

1934  Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

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  On December - 08 anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua  

1938  On December - 08 highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif  

1939  On this day in history ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63  

1940  German Luftwaffe launches massive attack on London on this day in history.  

1940  1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 on December - 08.  

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  On this day in history uSS Wake (PR-3), a river gunboat moored at Shanghai, is only U.S. vessel to surrender during World War II.  

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1508  Gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer was born on this day in history.  

1574  Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616) was born on this day in history.  

1626  On December - 08 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  On this day in history birth of francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)  

1715  John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery) was born on this day in history.  

0644  On December - 08 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 December - 08 john Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62  

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

1596  On this day in history death of luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico  

1626  Death of John Davies, English poet (b. 1569) on this day in history.  

1632  On this day in history death of philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)  

1643  On this day in history john Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59