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Events on the 8th of December in history

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08 Dec 0395 Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
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08 Dec 0757 Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
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08 Dec 1326 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
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08 Dec 1432 The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
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08 Dec 1560 The city of Guarulhos is founded.
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08 Dec 1596 Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City.
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08 Dec 1660 A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
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08 Dec 1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
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08 Dec 1777 Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
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08 Dec 1792 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
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08 Dec 1794 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
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08 Dec 1813 Premier of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
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08 Dec 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
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08 Dec 1854 In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.
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08 Dec 1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
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08 Dec 1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
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08 Dec 1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
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08 Dec 1863 Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
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08 Dec 1863 President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
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08 Dec 1864 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
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08 Dec 1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
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08 Dec 1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie, Kansas
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08 Dec 1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
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08 Dec 1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
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08 Dec 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL President
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08 Dec 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
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08 Dec 1899 Natal: British fall / burst out belegerd Ladysmith
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08 Dec 1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
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08 Dec 1907 King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
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08 Dec 1909 Bird banding society found
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08 Dec 1912 Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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08 Dec 1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
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08 Dec 1914 British and German fleets battle at Falkland Islands
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08 Dec 1914 Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
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08 Dec 1914 World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
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08 Dec 1921 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
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08 Dec 1922 Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
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08 Dec 1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
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08 Dec 1923 Labour / Liberals win British parliament
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08 Dec 1923 Salary and price freeze in Germany
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08 Dec 1927 The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
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08 Dec 1930 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway, New York City
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08 Dec 1931 Coaxial cable patented
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08 Dec 1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
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08 Dec 1936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers
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08 Dec 1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa, California
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08 Dec 1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
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08 Dec 1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
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08 Dec 1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
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08 Dec 1941 London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
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08 Dec 1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
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08 Dec 1941 San Francisco 1st blackout, at 6:15pm
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08 Dec 1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WWII
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08 Dec 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
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08 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
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08 Dec 1942 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
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08 Dec 1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
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08 Dec 1947 "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 performances
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08 Dec 1948 "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
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08 Dec 1948 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
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08 Dec 1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
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08 Dec 1949 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 performances
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08 Dec 1949 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
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08 Dec 1949 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
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08 Dec 1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
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08 Dec 1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
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08 Dec 1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
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08 Dec 1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
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08 Dec 1953 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
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08 Dec 1953 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
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08 Dec 1954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Dec 1955 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
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08 Dec 1955 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
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08 Dec 1955 Turkish government of Menderes forms
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08 Dec 1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
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08 Dec 1956 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
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08 Dec 1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
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08 Dec 1960 Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
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08 Dec 1961 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
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08 Dec 1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
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08 Dec 1961 S Africa vs. New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock
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08 Dec 1961 Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
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08 Dec 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 performances
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08 Dec 1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
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08 Dec 1962 Failed coup in Brunei
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08 Dec 1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
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08 Dec 1962 Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
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08 Dec 1963 "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 performances
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08 Dec 1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
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08 Dec 1963 Mickey Wright / Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
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08 Dec 1963 Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
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08 Dec 1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as President of the USSR
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08 Dec 1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
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08 Dec 1966 US and the USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
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08 Dec 1966 The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
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08 Dec 1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in the UK
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08 Dec 1967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
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08 Dec 1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
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08 Dec 1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
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08 Dec 1969 An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90—the worst crash of a DC-6.
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08 Dec 1971 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
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08 Dec 1972 United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. The crash is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
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08 Dec 1973 "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
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08 Dec 1973 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
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08 Dec 1974 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
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08 Dec 1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
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08 Dec 1974 Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
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08 Dec 1974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
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08 Dec 1974 A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
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08 Dec 1975 "Raisin" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 847 performances
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08 Dec 1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim Secretary General
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08 Dec 1977 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
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08 Dec 1980 "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
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08 Dec 1980 John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
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08 Dec 1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
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08 Dec 1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
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08 Dec 1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
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08 Dec 1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
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08 Dec 1982 In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
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08 Dec 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
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08 Dec 1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
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08 Dec 1984 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
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08 Dec 1984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
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08 Dec 1985 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
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08 Dec 1985 Laurie Rinker / Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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08 Dec 1986 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
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08 Dec 1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
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08 Dec 1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
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08 Dec 1987 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
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08 Dec 1987 Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
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08 Dec 1987 The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
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08 Dec 1987 An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
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08 Dec 1988 A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
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08 Dec 1990 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
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08 Dec 1990 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
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08 Dec 1991 "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
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08 Dec 1991 "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
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08 Dec 1991 Kris Tschetter / Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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08 Dec 1991 Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
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08 Dec 1991 The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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08 Dec 1991 The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
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08 Dec 1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
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08 Dec 1993 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
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08 Dec 1993 4th Billboard Music Awards
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08 Dec 1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
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08 Dec 1993 Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
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08 Dec 1994 Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
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08 Dec 1994 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
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08 Dec 1996 "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
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08 Dec 1996 Donna Andrews and Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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08 Dec 1997 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win
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08 Dec 1998 Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
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08 Dec 2004 The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
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08 Dec 2007 Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed.
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08 Dec 2009 Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448.
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08 Dec 2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
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08 Dec 2010 The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
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08 Dec 2013 Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
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