Major Events
- 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South
- 1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II
- 1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous "Day of Infamy" speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
- 1965 Pope Paul VI closes final session of the Second Vatican Council - an influential ecumenical council that significantly modernized church practices
- 1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
- 2004 Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the Union of South American Nations
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Dec 8 in Film & TV
- 1978 "The Deer Hunter", directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep, premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1979)
Dec 8 in Music
- 1813 Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres in Vienna with Beethoven conducting
Dec 8 in Sport
- 1978 Commencement of the 1st day/night World Series Cricket supertest at VFL Park, Melbourne
Did You Know?
Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York
Horace
Mary, Queen of Scots
Eli Whitney
Diego Rivera
Joachim Fest
Jimmy Lai
Sammy Davis Jr.
Maximilian Schell
Sam Kinison
Kim Basinger
Jean Sibelius
Jim Morrison
Gregg Allman
Sinead O'Connor
Nicki Minaj
Ernie Toshack
Steve Elkington
Raheem Sterling
Fun Fact About December 8
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
Famous Weddings
- 1872 American religious leader Brigham Young (71) weds his 55th and final wife, American poet Hannah Tapfield (68) in Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1950 NBA player Bob Cousy (22) weds his college sweetheart Missie Ritterbusch
- 1953 Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker (58) weds second wife Olive Palmer (51) at Park Road Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada
Famous Divorces
- 2010 "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage
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Albert Kahn
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Golda Meir
John Lennon
John Glenn
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