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Today in History
December 8

1660--The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona.

1861--CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry.

1863--Union General William Averell's cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.

1914--The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

1920--President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.

1932--Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China.

1941--Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore.

1943--U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands.

1944--The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

1948--The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea.

1967--In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed.

1968--South Vietnam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks.

1980--John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building.

1982--The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument.

1987--The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed.

1987--An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada.

1991--The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States.

2004--The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.

2010--SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

2010--The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus.


Born on December 8

1933--Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson Jr.), comedian and actor; won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards for his 1970s TV variety series, The Flip Wilson Show.

1953--Kim Basinger, actress, singer, producer; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential (1997).


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