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This Day in History
December 8
Today Japan celebrates Bodhi Day, commemorating the day the Buddha experienced enlightenment. There are 23 days remaining in 2016. There are 16 days until Christmas. Events 877 Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is c-c-c-crowned ki-ki-ki-ruler of the West Frankish Ki-Ki-ingdom at C-C-Compiθgne. 1813 Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. 1922 Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State. 1927 The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings. 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. 1953 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. 1962 Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days. 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped at gunpoint from a hotel in Lake Tahoe. He was released two days later after his father paid out the $240,000 ransom demanded by the kidnappers, who were later captured, and sentenced to long prison terms. In order to communicate with the kidnappers via a payphone the senior Sinatra carried a roll of dimes with him throughout this ordeal, which became a lifetime habit, he is said to have been buried with a roll of dimes [and a fifth of Jack Daniel's]. 1966 The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200. 1972 United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737. 1980 John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City. [Hard to believe that was 36 years ago.] 1984 - Vince Neil from Motley Crue was involved in a car accident in Redondo Beach, Ca, which killed Nick Dingley from Hanoi Rocks and injured two other passengers. Neil was jailed for 20 days and paid $2.6 million in compensation. 1988 A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II (affectionately known as The Warthog) crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others. 2000 - A plaque to commemorate the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's death was unveiled outside his childhood home in Liverpool. 2004 - Former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott was one of five people killed after a man stormed the stage during a Damageplan show at the Alrosa Villa Club in Columbus. Nathan Gale, aged 25, began firing at the band and crowd, was then shot and killed by a police officer who arrived shortly after the first shots were fired. 2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. 2010 The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km (~50,200 miles). 2013 - Metallica played a gig inside a dome at the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini, thus becoming the first band ever to play on all seven continents. During the concert audio was transmitted to the audience through headphones. Births 65 BC Horace; 1542 Mary, Queen of Scots; 1765 Eli Whitney (invented the cotton gin); 1861 William C. Durant (founded General Motors and Chevrolet); 1864 Camille Claudel; 1865 Jean Sibelius; 1886 Diego Rivera; 1894 E. C. Segarm (created Popeye); 1894 James Thurber (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty); 1911 Lee J. Cobb; 1914 Floyd Tillman ; 1916 Richard Fleischer; 1922 Jean Ritchie ; 1925 Sammy Davis, Jr. ; 1927 Ferdie The Fight Doctor Pacheco; 1930 Maximilian Schell; 1931 Bob Arum (boxing promoter); 1933 Flip Wilson; 1936 David Carradine; 1937 James MacArthur ('Danno' on the original Hawaii Five-O); 1939 Jerry Butler (The Impressions); 1939 James Galway (flautist, a wee one); 1939 Soko Richardson(John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue); 1941 Bobby Elliott(The Hollies); 1943 Jim Morrison (The Doors); 1946 John Rubinstein; 1947 Gregg Allman(Allman Bros Band); 1950 Rick Baker (sfx make-up artist); 1950 Dan Hartman ; 1953 Kim Basinger; 1953 -SAM KINISON; 1957 Phil Collen (Def Leppard); 1961 Ann Coulter; 1962 Steve Elkington; 1962 Marty Friedman(Megadeth); 1963 Greg Howe ; 1964 Teri Hatcher ("They're real, and they're spectacular."); 1966 Sinιad O'Connor (Irish attention whore); 1972 Frank Shamrock; 1973 Corey Taylor (Slipknot); 1975 Kevin 'Happy' Harvick; 1977 Ryan Newman; 1982 Nick
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