This Day in "History"

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December 8

1854
Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the
Immaculate Conception.

1886
The American Federation of Labor was founded
at a convention of union leaders in Columbus,
Ohio.

1941
Congress declared war on Japan and the U.S.
entered World War II .

1949
Communist attacks forced the Chinese
Nationalist government to flee to the island of
Formosa ( Taiwan).

1978
Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died.

1980
John Lennon , former member of the Beatles,
was shot and killed in New York City by a
deranged fan.

1987
President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the
nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.

1993
President Bill Clinton signed The North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.

 

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Born on December 8

Mary, Queen of Scots
queen (1542)

Christina
queen of Sweden (1626)

William C. Durant
manufacturer (1861)

Aristide Maillol
sculptor (1861)

Jean Sibelius
composer (1865)

Diego Rivera
painter (1886)

James Thurber
humorist (1894)

Lee J. Cobb
actor (1911)

Sammy Davis, Jr.
singer, actor (1925)

David Carradine
actor (1936)

Jim Morrison
rock musician (1943)

Kim Basinger
actor (1953)

Teri Hatcher
actor (1964)

Sinead O'Connor
singer, songwriter (1966)

 

[Dinesh jain]

December 9

1941
China declared war against Japan , Germany, and
Italy .

1958
The anti-Communist John Birch Society was
formed.

1965
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.

1990
Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland .

1993
U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the
Hubble Space Telescope .

1996
Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey
died in Kenya at age 83

This Day in History: December 9 | Infoplease.com

 

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o Born on December 9

Joel Chandler Harris
humorist (1848)

Jean de Brunhoff
author and illustrator (1899)

Margaret Hamilton
actor (1902)

Grace Hopper
ear admiral; computer scientist (1906)

Thomas P O'Neill
political leader (1912)

Kirk Douglas
actor (1916)

John Cassavetes
actor and director (1929)

Junior Wells
musician (1934)

Dame Judi Dench
actress (1934)

Tom Daschle
U.S. senator (1947)

John Malkovich
actor (1953)

Felicity Huffman
actor (1962)

Crown Princess Masako
royalty (1963)

December 9 Birthdays: John Milton | Infoplease.com

 

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December 10

1817
Mississippi became the 20th state in the United
States.

1869
The territory of Wyoming authorized women to
vote and hold office.

1901
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in
Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics,
chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.

1948
The United Nations General Assembly adopted
its Universal Declaration on Human Rights .

1950
Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to
receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , received the Nobel
Peace Prize.

1999
Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested
and charged with stealing classified information.

2004
A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam , the first
one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly
three decades earlier.

This Day in History: December 10 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 10

Thomas Gallaudet
educator of the deaf (1787)

Melvil Dewey
library pioneer (1851)

Chet Huntley
news broadcaster (1911)

Dorothy Lamour
actor (1914)

Douglas Kenney
humorist (1947)

Kenneth Branagh
actor, director (1960)

Raven-Symoné
actor, singer (1985)

December 10 Birthdays: Emily Dickinson | Infoplease.com

 

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December 11

1816
Indiana became the 19th state.

1844
Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in
dentistry.

1936
King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain
for the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

1941
Germany and Italy declared war on the United
States .

1946
The United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.

1994
Russian troups invaded Chechnya in an
unsuccessful attempt to restore Moscow's power
in the region.

1997
Housing secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted
for conspiracy, obstructing justice, and false
statements to the FBI.

This Day in History: December 11 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 11

Sir David Brewster
physicist and natural philosopher (1781)

Louis-Hector Berlioz
composer (1803)

Robert Koch
bacteriologist (1843)

Annie Jump Cannon
astronomer (1863)

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia
mayor of New York City (1882)

Naguib Mahfouz
novelist (1911)

Carlo Ponti
producer (1912?)

Willie Mae Thornton
blues singer (1926)

John F. Kerry
politician (1943)

Mos Def
rapper, actor (1973)

December 11 Birthdays: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn | Infoplease.com

 

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December 12

1787
Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify
the U.S. Constitution .

1870
Joseph Rainey took his seat as the first African
American in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1913
The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after
having been stolen two years earlier (August
1911) from the Louvre .

1963
Kenya gained its independence from Britain.

1998
The House Judiciary Committee approved a
fourth and final article of im
peachment against
President Clinton .

2000
The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential
election recount in Florida.

2001
Yasir Arafat closed the offices of Hamas and
Islamic Jihad.

This Day in History: December 12 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on December 12

John Jay
statesman (1745)

William Lloyd Garrison
abolitionist (1805)

Gustave Flaubert
novelist (1821)

Edvard Munch
painter (1863)

Edward G. Robinson
actor (1893)

Patrick O'Brian
novelist (1914)

Bob Barker
TV personality (1923)

Dionne Warwick
singer (1941)

Tracy Austin
tennis player (1962)

Jennifer Connelly
actor (1970)

December 12 Birthdays: Frank Sinatra | Infoplease.com