08 December - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on December 08, the day number in a year is 342 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 343. December 08 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
December 08 in History - Top Historical Events
Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
43 | Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been prescribed as an enemy of the state. |
1813 | Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (audio featured) premiered in Vienna with the composer himself conducting. |
1854 | In his apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin. |
1863 | 2500 people died in a fire at the Jesuit Church in Santiago, the capital of Chili. |
1863 | 2,500 people died in a fire at the Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile. |
1881 | More than 800 people died in a theater fire in the European country of Austria, Vienna. |
1900 | Pandit Uday Shankar, born dancer and dance director of modern dance of India, was born. |
1914 | The Falkland Water War was fought between Britain and Germany around the islands of the same name in the Atlantic Ocean. |
1923 | Many Italians in Rome were rendered homeless and had to run for the hills as a result of severe flooding. The Tiber River is at a record high. |
1923 | The Treaty of Friendship was signed between Germany and America. |
1931 | Patented coaxial cable used in telecommunications in the US. |
1934 | Weekly air mail service started between England and Australia. |
1935 | Bollywood veteran actor Dharmendra was born. |
1941 | Second World War-Led by Takashi Sakai, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Hong Kong and quickly achieved air superiority by bombing Kai Tak Airport. |
1941 | The Holocaust-The Chelmno extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill the Jews of the Ghetto Litzman stadt and the Warthegau by poison gas, began operating. |
1941 | The United States and Britain declared war against Japan. |
1943 | Vera's war ended in an Allied victory. |
1960 | Hayato Ikada began his second term as Prime Minister of Japan. |
1963 | After being hit by a lightning strike while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crash near Elkton, Maryland, US, killing all 81 people on board. |
1965 | A new Race Relations Act has been put into practice. It prohibits discrimination on the "grounds of color, race, or ethnic or national origins" in public places and includes both British people as well as foreign visitors. |
1967 | The first submarine INS Kalwari was inducted into the Indian Navy. |
1972 | The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph 'The Blue Marble' the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon. |
1980 | Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon outside his apartment in New York City. |
1982 | Colombian writer Gabrielle García Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
1987 | Arab–Israeli conflict-An Israeli army tank transporter killed four Palestinian refugees and injured seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada. |
1987 | A man shot and killed eight people at the Australia Post Building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death. |
1987 | The leaders of the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, signed the first treaty that provided for the reduction of land-based nuclear weapons stockpiles. |
1991 | Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords, agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
1993 | The U.S. President, Bill Clinton has passed the world’s largest trade agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which includes the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. |
1999 | The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster, alleging the service facilitated widespread copyright infringement. |
2006 | As per officials, The 2006 ASEAN summit that is to take place in the Philippines has been delayed because of severe tropical storm, Utor. Officials also refuted that the delay was because of terror threat. |
2007 | The United States Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asked for an investigation into the obliteration of two CIA tapes that interrogate two suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. |
2007 | A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed intoan oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-everoil spill. |
2007 | The US-led coalition forces and NATO forces attacked Taliban militants in Musa Kala district in southern Afghanistan. |
2009 | The head of the anti drug trafficking unit in Honduras, Julian Aristides Gonzalez has been killed by unidentified gunmen. |
2009 | Bombings carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq in Baghdad,Iraq, killed 127 and injured 448. |
2009 | The bombing in Baghdad, Iraq killed 127 people and injured 448. |
2010 | A raid has been conducted in the houses of A. Raja, India’s former telecommunications minister, and his partners, by India's Central Bureau of Investigation concerning a corruption scandal. |
2010 | The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS passed by Venus at about 80,800 km distance, completing its plannedmission to demonstrate solar sail technology. |
2011 | Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, confirms to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he is unaware of what happened to the millions of dollars of customers' money, apparently in separated accounts, that seems to be missing. |
2012 | The President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino declares a state of emergency in the country after Typhoon Bopha, has lead to the death of around 450 people. |
2013 | After a fatal car accident in the Little India region of Singapore, angry mobs of passersby attacked the bus involved andemergency vehicles, the first riot in the country in over 40 years. |
2014 | Barack Obama, United States President reveals new restrictions on racial reporting. These limits forbid defining based on race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation. |
Famous Birthdays of December 08:
Year | Name / Profession / Country |
1977 | Anita Weyermann / Journalist / Switzerland |
1922 | Lucian Freud / Painter / Germany |
1963 | Greg Howe / Writer / United States of America |
1865 | Rüdiger von der Goltz / General / Germany |
1965 | Theo Maassen / Actor / Netherlands |
1981 | Jeremy Accardo / Baseball Player / United States of America |
1941 | Bobby Elliott / Drummer / United Kingdom |
1958 | Bob Greene / Author / United States of America |
1954 | Frits Pirard / Cyclist / Netherlands |
1966 | Sinéad O'Connor / Singer / Ireland |
1953 | Kim Basinger / Actress / United States of America |
1962 | Marty Friedman / Writer / United States of America |
1874 | Ernst Moro / Physician / Austria |
1963 | Toshiaki Kawada / Wrestler / Japan |
1943 | Bodo Tümmler / Runner / Germany |
1927 | Vladimir Shatalov / Pilot / Kazakhstan |
1908 | John A. Volpe / Politician / United States of America |
1731 | František Xaver Dušek / Pianist / Czech Republic |
1936 | David Carradine / Actor / United States of America |
1985 | Oleksiy Pecherov / Basketball Player / Ukraine |
1978 | Frédéric Piquionne / Footballer / France |
1958 | Michel Ferté / Racing Car Driver / France |
1944 | Vince MacLean / Politician / Canada |
1916 | Richard Fleischer / Producer / United States of America |
1928 | Ulric Neisser / Scientist / United States of America |
1964 | Chigusa Nagayo / Wrestler / Japan |
1919 | Peter Tali Coleman / Politician / United States of America |
1978 | Vernon Wells / Baseball Player / United States of America |
1815 | Adolph Menzel / Painter / Germany |
65 B | Horace / Soldier / Roman Republic |
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Read in Hindi : 08 दिसम्बर की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं