The December 8th is the 342e Jour of the Année (343e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. It remainder 23 days before the end of the year.

Events

  • 1099 : With Ascalon, victory of the Cross over the troops of the caliph fâtimide of the Cairo.
  • 1554 : Ambroise Paré obtains the title of doctor in Chirurgie.
  • 1792 : In Paris, the Convention issues the freedom of trade of the grains and removes the regulation.
  • 1794 : In Paris (18 frimaire), the Girondins proscribed in June are reinstated in the Convention.
  • 1807 : Napoleon gives to his younger brother, Jerome, the crown of the kingdom of Westphalia. A kingdom which it created of all parts to reach the Austria.
  • 1854 : The pope Black and white IX, in a bubble Ineffabilis Deus , proclaims the Dogme Immaculate Conception and declares the unscathed Virgin Mary effects of the original sin.
  • 1869 : Opening of the council the Vatican I, convened in June 1868; for the first time, the representatives of the European States are not invited.
  • 1881 : A fire is declared with the Opéra of Vienna during the second representation of the Contes of Hoffmann of Jacques Offenbach, causing the death of more than four hundred people.
  • 1907 : Beginning of the reign of Gustave V, king of Sweden at forty-nine years.
  • 1914 : With broad of the Falkland Islands, the English navy destroys a German squadron.
  • 1918 : the Bolchevik S take the control of the Estonia.
  • 1923 : The the United States sign a treaty of friendship with the Germany
  • 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes its book Mein Kampf ( My Combat ), work written in prison (1923 - 1924).
  • 1927 : Nobel Prize of literature for the philosopher Henri Bergson.
  • 1941 : After the attack Japan ease on Pearl Harbor the December 7th, the the United States and the the United Kingdom declare the war with the Japan.
  • 1943 :
    • the general de Gaulle, who governs Algiers the French Comité of the national Release , prevents of her intention to reconquer the Indo-China after the defeat of Hitler and its ally Japan board. Depities, resistant Vietnamese prepare with new fights.
    • the last German battleship, the Scharnhorst, is run by the English navy in the north of the Norway.
  • 1944 : Creation of the first republican companies of safety (CRS).
  • 1949 : Driven out continent by the Communists, the Chinese nationalist government settles in the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
  • 1953 : The the United States propose at the General meeting UNO an international control of atomic energy.
  • 1956 :
    • a call to the general strike in Hungary involves the proclamation of the martial law and the massive arrests.
    • With Salgotarjan, department of Nógrád, in Hungary, the communist troop kills forty seven people during a rising of minors and workmen.
  • 1962 : A rebellion is subdued with the Bruneï (Northern Borneo), following a British intervention.
  • 1965 : End of the council the Vatican II.
  • 1966 :
    • By heavy weather, close to the Greek island of Melos, the cross Heraklion makes shipwreck and two hundred sixty-four people perish.
    • the the United States and the Soviet Union get along on the principle of prohibition of the atomic weapons in space.
  • 1970 : The Safety advice of UNO condemns the Portugal for military actions in Guinea.
  • 1971 : New Delhi announces that the Indian forces, which progress in direction of Dacca, the capital of the Eastern Pakistan, put the Pakistani in rout.
  • 1974 : By a strong majority, the Greek vote to abolish monarchy and to found the republic.
  • 1980 :
  • 1985 : Joined together with the Bangladesh, seven countries create the Association of regional co-operation of the South Asia.
  • 1987 : The treaty Intermediate-arranges Nuclear Forces envisaging the elimination of the nuclear missiles of range intermediaries is signed with Washington between Ronald Reagan and Mikhaïl Gorbatchev.
  • 1990 : The Iraq threat all the Arabic Peninsula.
  • 1991 :
    • the signature of the creative agreement of the the Community of the States independent by the presidents of the RSFSR, the Ukraine and the President of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Bélarus. What, the December 25th, will put an end to the the USSR.
    • Kimberly Bergalis, twenty-three years, succumbs to the AIDS, in Florida, first listed case of contamination per health care, those of its dentist.
  • 1996 : A storm leaves 41,8 cm of snow with Quebec, a record.
  • 1997 : The Union of Swiss banks (UBS) and the Company of Swiss bank (SBS) announce their fusion.
  • 1998 : The heads of three English and a New Zealander, removed in Chetchnia, are found in a bag, the west of the country; the bodies will be found the December 25th.
  • 1999 :
    • with Memphis, the family of Martin Luther King obtains the reopening of the investigation on the assassination of Pasteur. " agencies gouvernementales" are suspected of having plotted.
    • the presidents Boris Eltsine and Alexandre Loukachenko sign an agreement to bring closer the Russia and the Bielorussia.
    • the France maintains the Embargo on the British bovine meat, for lack of “sufficient guarantees” as for ESB.
  • 2000 :
    • With the Japan, opening of the first Hypermarket Crossroads .
    • New dramatic turn of events in the American presidential election. The Supreme court of Florida orders the manual calculation of thousands of not entered bulletins, which gives again hope with Al Gore; George W. Bush seizes the Supreme court of the United States.
  • 2005 :
  • 2006 : Exit of the console of Nintendo the Wii in Europe

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Festa Di has Nazione Corsa (festival of the Corsica Nation)
  • 2006 : Departure of the Telethon which celebrates its 20th birthday.
  • Each year, the firemen of Rome go up to hang a crown of flowers to the arm of the statue of the Virgin.
  • international Day of the radio and television in favor of the children
  • Immaculate Conception. This catholic festival is at the origin of the Fête of the lights , with Lyon, which is held the night from December 8th to 9th.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Romanic de Remiremont (+ 653), founder of the monastery (old date).

Catholic saints of the day

See too

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