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December 8: Immaculate Conception Day: --
A Roman Catholic holiday observed to commemorate the immaculate
conception of the Virgin Mary. In Spain, this day is one of two
national holidays that fall just a day apart and herald the
beginning of the country's Christmas season. The other important
holiday, Constitution Day, falls on December 6 and marks when the
new constitution was approved after the Franco regime's collapse.
Christians believe Mary was born without original sin, although
this notion was not linked to the holiday's earliest celebrations
in the fifth century. The Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy
and All Pure Mother of God, as it was once called, focused on
Mary's mother, Saint Anne. The topic of Mary's 'immaculate' and
'pure' conception was highly debated, and the Roman Catholic
Church only reached a consensus in 1854, when Pope Pius IX stated
it as dogma, and this was expanded on by Pope Pius XII's 1942
consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the 100th
anniversary of Pope Pius IX's declaration. Immaculate Conception
Day is celebrated on December 8, exactly nine months before the
Nativity of Mary, a commemoration of her birth on September 8.
December 8 is also an important date in Spain. On December 7,
1585, when the country was fighting in the Eighty Years' War,
Spanish soldiers fighting in Northern Dutch territory were
outnumbered, surrounded by enemy soldiers and two giant rivers,
and low on supplies. After retreating to a high point near the
town of Emple, a soldier found a painting of Mary while digging a
trench near a church. Believing it was a divine sign, the soldiers
prayed to Mary for help. The next day, one of the rivers froze,
allowing the troops to cross safely and win the battle against
enemy forces. This event became famous among the fighters and,
eventually, the entire Spanish empire, further cementing Mary's
importance in Spanish culture. Immaculate Conception Day spread
throughout the country during the 16th and 17th centuries, leading
to Mary's designation as patroness of Spain and its territories.
Over the years, the celebrations have incorporated modern trends
and multicultural traditions. Spaniards attend church services and
plan religious activities, such as parades and fairs. The streets
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8: Bodhi Day: -- Bodhi Day is
celebrated in Japan on December 8 every year. It generally falls
on the eighth day of the 12th month of the lunisolar calendar. In
Japan, the day is known as Rohatsu and was moved to its current
date when Emperor Meiji began the westernization of Japan and
introduced the Gregorian calendar. It is a spiritually
invigorating day that is beneficial to many. Bodhi Day is observed
to mark the moment that took place 2,500 years ago when Siddhartha
Gautama achieved enlightenment and became the Buddha or 'awakened
one'. The story goes that, rejecting the luxurious lifestyle of a
prince, Siddharta left the comforts of the palace at the age of 29
and went on a journey of deep introspection to seek meaning in
life. He meditated in Bodh Gaya, a town in northeastern India,
under a Peepal tree (a species of Banyan fig), now famously known
as the Bodhi Tree, and resolved to continue meditating until he
achieved 'bodhi' ('enlightenment'). He attained bodhi at the age
of 35, after 49 days of continuous meditation. He was now able to
see how everyone and everything was connected, and therefore
reached a state of enlightenment that would lead him to create the
Four Noble Truths: Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), Samudaya
(arising), Nirodha (cessation), and Magga (path) in which the
Eightfold Path is set out. Buddhists commemorate this day by
meditating, studying the 'dharma' ('universal truth or law'),
chanting sutras (Buddhist texts), and performing kind acts towards
other beings. Some people mark the day in a more traditional sense
by cooking a meal of tea and cakes. Bodhi tree plantings are held
throughout the month and are usually accompanied by tea
ceremonies, while incense and multi-colored lights are displayed
during the following month in the capital city of Tokyo and in
towns and villages across the country. However, Bodhi Day is not
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8: National Blue Collar Day: -- What better way to bring attention to America's hard workers than to have them recognized with a national holiday! All blue-collar workers deserve our respect, admiration, and gratitude. They are the ones who work with their hands and use physical labor to earn a living. We are grateful for the hard-working men and women who help make our country run smoothly every day. How about we get together with our co-workers and organize a special event in our community to mark this special day. National Blue Collar Day aims to raise awareness about the importance of blue-collar jobs and their contributions to society. It was established by Todd Sohn in 2019. Blue-collar workers are typically defined as people performing manual labor and other physical tasks, not intellectual ones. They often work in construction, manufacturing, or other physical labor industries. While they may not have college degrees, these workers are essential to our economy and society. The blue-collar worker is often a symbol of America's working class. Many people associate them with hard-working and dependable people who give their all to their jobs every day. The term blue-collar originates from the fact that most workers wore blue uniforms, distinguishing them from white-collar workers (those who wore white). Workers who don't have an academic degree but work in manual labor jobs are blue-collar workers. The term was used about trade jobs in 1924 when people started wearing uniforms during their workdays. The establishment of trade unions came in handy in defending the rights of blue-collar workers. The National Trade Union was founded on August 20, 1866, in Baltimore, Maryland. This union was intended as the first attempt to create a national workforce group in the U.S. The first appeal raised was to ask Congress to establish an eight-hour working day rule to protect all workers - but especially blue-collar workers from exploitation. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/labor-union-films-dvd.html
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8: Battle Day (Falkland
Islands): -- December 8, 1914: The European Civil War: World War
I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I):
The Battle Of The Falkland Islands: -- A squadron of Britain's
Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in The
Battle Of The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. The British,
after the defeat at the Battle of Coronel on November 1, sent a
large force to track down and destroy the victorious German
cruiser squadron. The battle is commemorated every year on
December 8 in the Falkland Islands as a public holiday. Admiral
Graf Maximilian Von Spee - commanding the German squadron of two
armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light
cruisers SMS Nurnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and three auxiliaries,
the colliers SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel, and SS Seydlitz -
attempted to raid the British supply base at Stanley in the
Falkland Islands. The British squadron - consisting of the
battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured
cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant
cruiser HMS Macedonia and the light cruisers HMS Bristol and
Glasgow - had arrived in the port the day before. Visibility was
at its maximum, the sea was placid with a gentle breeze from the
northwest, and the day was bright and sunny. The vanguard cruisers
of the German squadron were detected early. By nine o'clock that
morning the British battlecruisers and cruisers were in hot
pursuit of the German vessels, which had taken flight in line
abreast to the southeast. All except the auxiliary Seydlitz were
hunted down and sunk. Maximilian Von Spee was killed in the battle
when his armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst was sunk. Von Spee went
down with the ship; Spee's two sons, who happened to be serving on
two of his ships, were also killed, along with about 2,200 other
men. The discovery of the Scharnhorstwreck was announced in
December 2019 by Mensun Bound. Spee was hailed as a hero in
Germany, and several ships were named in his honor, including the
heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee built in the 1930s, which the
Germans called a "Panzerschiff" (armored ship) and
British called a "pocket battleship". The British
defeated the Admiral Graf Spee during in the Battle Of The River
Plate, the first naval battle in the Second World War and the
first one of the Battle of the Atlantic in South American waters.
The damaged Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled in Montevideo Harbor by
her captain Hans Langsdorff rather than face the overwhelmingly
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
The Attack On Pearl Harbor (The Battle Of Pearl Harbor, The Hawaii
Operation, Operation AI, Operation Z): -- 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.
Meanwhile, Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai
International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Southwest Pacific Theater Of World War II: The
Philippines Campaign (1941-1942) (The Battle Of The Philippines,
The Fall Of The Philippines): -- The Philippines Campaign, also
known as The Battle Of The Philippines (Filipino: Labanan Sa
Pilipinas), begins in the immediate aftermath of The Attack On
Pearl Harbor (The Battle Of Pearl Harbor, The Hawaii Operation,
Operation AI, Operation Z), when the Japanese also simultaneously
invaded Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong
Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies (modern day
Indonesia). The Philippines Campaign was the invasion of the
Philippines by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific Theater of
World War II. The operation to capture the islands, which was
defended by the U.S. and Philippine Armies, was intended to
prevent interference with Japan's expansion in Southeast Asia.
Japanese planes began bombing U.S. forces in the Philippines
several hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, including aircraft
at Clark Field near the capital of Manila on the island of Luzon.
Japanese landings on northern Luzon began two days later, and were
followed on 22 December by major landings at Lingayen Gulf and
Lamon Bay by the Japanese Fourteenth Army under Masaharu Homma.
The defense of the Philippines was led by Douglas MacArthur, who
ordered his soldiers to evacuate Manila to the Bataan Peninsula
ahead of the Japanese advance. Japanese troops captured Manila by
7 January 1942, and after their failure to penetrate the Bataan
defensive perimeter in early February, began a 40-day siege,
enabled by a naval blockade of the islands. The U.S. and
Philippine troops on Bataan eventually surrendered on 9 April and
were then subjected to the Bataan Death March, which was marked by
Japanese atrocities and mistreatment. The campaign to capture the
Philippines took much longer than planned by the Japanese, who in
early January 1942 had decided to advance their timetable of
operations in Borneo and Indonesia and withdraw their best
division and the bulk of their airpower. This, coupled with the
decision of MacArthur to withdraw U.S. and Philippine forces to
Bataan, enabled the defenders to hold out for three months. The
harbor and port facilities of Manila Bay were denied to the
Japanese until the capture of Corregidor Island on 6 May. While
offensive operations in the Dutch East Indies were unaffected,
this heavily hindered operations in New Guinea and the Solomon
Islands, buying time for the U.S. Navy to plan to engage the
Japanese at Guadalcanal rather than much further east. On May 6,
1942: after a heroic defense during The Battle Of Corregidor
(1942) (Filipino: Labanan Sa Corregidor; Japanese: Korehidoru
Notatakai), the last American forces on Corregidor in the
Philippines surrender to invading Japanese forces, resulting in a
stunning Japanese victory and bringing to an end The Philippines
Campaign; Japan's conquest of the Philippines is often cited as
the worst military defeat in U.S. history, with about 23,000 U.S.
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
The Battle Of Hong Kong (The Defence Of Hong Kong, The Defense Of
Hong Kong, The Fall Of Hong Kong): -- The Battle Of Hong Kong
begins, culminating on December 25, 1941 in both the surrender of
Hong Kong by the British to the Japanese and the beginning of The
Japanese Occupation Of Hong Kong. The Battle Of Hong Kong was one
of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the
same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire
of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the
same time that Japan declared war on Great Britain. The Hong Kong
garrison consisted of British, Indian and Canadian units, also the
Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
(HKVDC). Of the three territories of Hong Kong, the defenders
abandoned the two mainland territories of Kowloon and New
Territories within a week. Less than two weeks later, with their
last territory Hong Kong Island untenable, the colony surrendered.
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1542: #BOTD: #HBD! Mary,
Queen Of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, Queen Of
Scotland from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567 (d. February 8,
1587) is #born at Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, to King James V and
his French second wife, Mary of Guise. The only surviving
legitimate child of James V of Scotland, she was six days old when
her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of
her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and
in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended
the French throne as King Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly
became queen consort of France, until his death in December 1560.
Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August
1561. Four years later, she married her first cousin, Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley, but their union was unhappy. In February
1567, his residence was destroyed by an explosion, and Darnley was
found murdered in the garden. James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell,
was generally believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but
he was acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following
month he married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple,
Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle on an island in Loch
Leven in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland.
On July 24, 1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of James
VI, her one-year-old son by Darnley. After an unsuccessful attempt
to regain the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection
of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I Of England.
Mary had previously claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was
considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many English
Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the
Rising of the North. Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her
confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of
England. After eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was
found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586. She
executed by beheading aged 44 at Fotheringhay Castle,
Northamptonshire, England the following year. At Fotheringhay, on
the evening of the day before, Mary was told she was to be
executed in the morning. She spent the last hours of her life in
prayer, distributing her belongings to her household, and writing
her will and a letter to the King Of France. The scaffold that was
erected in the Great Hall was draped in black cloth. It was
reached by two or three steps, and furnished with the block, a
cushion for her to kneel on, and three stools for her and the
earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, who were there to witness the
execution. The executioner Bull and his assistant knelt before her
and asked forgiveness, as it was typical for the executioner to
request the pardon of the one being put to death. Mary replied, "I
forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an
end of all my troubles." Her servants, Jane Kennedy and
Elizabeth Curle, and the executioners helped Mary remove her outer
garments, revealing a velvet petticoat and a pair of sleeves in
crimson brown, the liturgical colour of martyrdom in the Catholic
Church, with a black satin bodice and black trimmings. As she
disrobed Mary smiled and said she "never had such grooms
before ... nor ever put off her clothes before such a company".
She was blindfolded by Kennedy with a white veil embroidered in
gold, knelt down on the cushion in front of the block on which she
positioned her head, and stretched out her arms. Her last words
were "In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum"
("Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit"). Mary
was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her
neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the
neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut
through using the axe. Afterwards, he held her head aloft and
declared "God save the Queen." At that moment, the
auburn tresses in his hand turned out to be a wig and the head
fell to the ground, revealing that Mary had very short, grey hair.
Cecil's nephew, who was present at the execution, reported to his
uncle that after her death, "Her lips stirred up and down a
quarter of an hour after her head was cut off" and that a
small dog owned by the queen emerged from hiding among her skirts
- though eye-witness Emanuel Tomascon does not include those
details in his "exhaustive report". Items supposedly
worn or carried by Mary at her execution are of doubtful
provenance; contemporary accounts state that all her clothing, the
block, and everything touched by her blood was burnt in the
fireplace of the Great Hall to obstruct relic hunters. When the
news of the execution reached Elizabeth, she became indignant and
asserted that Davison had disobeyed her instructions not to part
with the warrant and that the Privy Council had acted without her
authority. Elizabeth's vacillation and deliberately vague
instructions gave her plausible deniability to attempt to avoid
the direct stain of Mary's blood. Davison was arrested, thrown
into the Tower of London, and found guilty of misprision. He was
released nineteen months later, after Elizabeth's chief adviser
William Cecil and her principal secretary Francis Walsingham
interceded on his behalf. Mary's request to be buried in France
was refused by Elizabeth. Her body was embalmed and left in a
secure lead coffin until her burial in a Protestant service at
Peterborough Cathedral in late July 1587. Her entrails, removed as
part of the embalming process, were buried secretly within
Fotheringhay Castle. Her body was exhumed in 1612 when her son,
King James VI and I, ordered that she be reinterred in Westminster
Abbey in a chapel opposite the tomb of Elizabeth. In 1867, her
tomb was opened in an attempt to ascertain the resting place of
her son, James I of England; he was ultimately found with Henry
VII instead. Many of her other descendants, including Elizabeth of
Bohemia, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the children of Anne,
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1793: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The
French First Republic (French: Premiere Republique; Revolutionary
France, Officially The French Republic [French: Republique
Francaise]): The Reign Of Terror: (French: La Terreur, "The
Terror") -- #DOTD: #RIP: Madame du Barry, French mistress of
Louis XV Of France (b. August 19, 1743) #dies when she is executed
by guillotine. Du Barry's Bengali slave Zamor, along with another
member of du Barry's domestic staff, had joined the Jacobin club.
He became a follower of the revolutionary George Grieve and then
an office-bearer in the Committee of Public Safety. Du Barry found
out about this and questioned Zamor about his connections with
Grieve. Upon realizing the depth of his involvement, she gave him
three days' notice to quit her service. This Zamor did without
hesitation, and promptly proceeded to denounce his mistress to the
Committee. Based largely on Zamor's testimony, Madame du Barry was
suspected of financially assisting emigres who had fled the French
Revolution. The denunciation by Zamor happened in 1792, and Madame
du Barry was finally arrested in 1793. In 1792, when the
Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris accused her of treason and
condemned her to death, she vainly attempted to save herself by
revealing the location of gems she had hidden. During the ensuing
trial, Zamor gave Chittagong as his birthplace; he was likely of
Siddi origin. His testimony, along with that of many others, sent
the Comtesse to the guillotine. On 8 December 1793, Madame du
Barry was beheaded by the guillotine on the Place De La Revolution
(now the Place de la Concorde). On the way to the guillotine, she
collapsed in the tumbrel and cried "You are going to hurt me!
Why?!" Terrified, she screamed for mercy and begged the
watching crowd for help. Her last words to the executioner are
said to have been: "De grace, monsieur le bourreau, encore un
petit moment!" - "One more moment, Mr. Executioner, I
beg you!" She was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery, like many
others executed during the Terror-including Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette. Although her French estate went to the Tribunal de
Paris, the jewels she had smuggled out of France to England were
sold by auction at Christie's in London in 1795. Madame du Barry
was born Jeanne Becu at Vaucouleurs in the present-day Meuse
department in Lorraine, France, as the illegitimate daughter of
Anne Becu, a seamstress, and possibly Jean Jacques Gomard, a friar
known as frere Ange. The Comtesse du Barry was the last
Maitresse-En-Titre (French: "Titular Mistress"/"Entitled
Mistress", meaning "Official Mistress") of Louis XV
Of France, and one of the victims of The Reign Of Terror during
the French Revolution. The Maitresse-En-Titre was the chief Royal
mistress of the King Of France. The title came into use during the
reign of Henry IV and continued through the reign of Louis XV. It
was a semi-official position which came with its own apartments.
In contrast, the title petite maitresse was the title of a
mistress who was not officially acknowledged. From the reign of
Louis XIV, the term has been applied, both in translation and in
the original French, to refer to the main mistress of any monarch
or prominent man when his relationship with her is not
clandestine, e.g. Vibeke Kruse, Nell Gwynn, Jeanne Baptiste
d'Albert de Luynes, Lola Montez, Magda Lupescu, Olympia Mancini,
Madame de Montespan, Madame de Pompadour. Many dishes are named
after du Barry. All dishes "du Barry" have a creamy
white sauce, and many have cauliflower in them. The cauliflower
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1861: #BOTD: #HBD! William C. Durant, aka Billy Durant, American businessman, co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet, founder of Frigidaire (d. March 18, 1947) is #born in Boston, Massachusetts. William Crapo "Billy" Durant was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars; and the co-founder of General Motors with Frederic L. Smith, and of Chevrolet with Louis Chevrolet. In the 1920s, Durant became a major "player" on Wall Street and on Black Tuesday joined with members of the Rockefeller family and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks, against the advice of friends, to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the stock market. His effort proved costly and failed to stop the market slide. By 1936, Durant was bankrupt. William C. Durant died from the lingering effects of a stroke in New York City, aged 85. By the time of his death, the Durants were bankrupt and had to sell off most of their collection of paintings and other valuables to pay for his medical expenses. He is interred in a private mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1996. Durant Park in Lansing, Michigan is named after him, as is Waterford Durant High School in Waterford, Michigan. Likewise, Durant Square in Deal, New Jersey, where he maintained a summer home, is named after him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wastcrof19do.html
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December 8, 1863: #BOTD: Albert Abrams,
fraudulent American physician, well known during his life for
inventing machines, such as the "Oscilloclast" and the
"Radioclast", which he falsely claimed could diagnose
and cure almost any disease (d. January 13, 1924) is #born in San
Francisco, California. These claims were challenged from the
outset. Towards the end of his life, and again shortly after his
death, many of his machines and conclusions were demonstrated to
be intentionally deceptive or false. His "Dynomizer"
looked something like a radio, and Abrams claimed it could
diagnose any known disease from a single drop of blood or
alternatively the subject's handwriting. He performed diagnoses on
dried blood samples sent to him on pieces of paper in envelopes
through the mail. Apparently Abrams even claimed he could conduct
medical practice over the telephone with his machines, and that he
could determine personality characteristics. The Dynomizer was big
business; by 1918, courses in spondylotherapy and ERA cost 200 USD
(about the same purchasing power as 3,150 USD in 2014); equipment
was leased at about 200 USD with a monthly 5 USD charge
thereafter. The lessee had to sign a contract stating the device
would never be opened. Abrams explained that this would disrupt
their delicate adjustment, but the rule also served to prevent the
Abrams devices from being examined. He then widened his claims to
treating the diagnosed diseases. Abrams came up with new and even
more impressive gadgets, the "Oscilloclast" and the
"Radioclast", which came with tables of frequencies that
were designed to "attack" specific diseases. Clients
were told cures required repeated treatments. Dynomizer operators
tended to give alarming diagnoses, involving combinations of such
maladies as cancer, diabetes and syphilis. Abrams often included a
disease called "bovine syphilis", unknown to other
medical practitioners. He claimed the Oscilloclast was capable of
defeating most of these diseases, most of the time. By 1921, there
were claimed to be 3,500 practitioners using ERA technology.
Conventional medical practitioners were extremely suspicious. When
people opened Abrams's boxes, they found "simple wiring, a
few resistors, a small motor that only made a humming noise, and
nothing that could in any way perform a diagnosis or 'broadcast'
or even produce radio waves." Albert Abrams died of pneumonia
in San Francisco, California at age 60 shortly before he went to
trial. He is buried at Home Of Peace Cemetery And Emanu-El
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1864: #BOTD: #HBD: Camille
Claudel, French sculptor, illustrator, model and beauty, known for
the originality and quality of her figurative works in bronze and
marble, an outstanding genius who, starting with wealth, beauty,
iron will and a brilliant future - even before becoming involved
Auguste Rodin as a model, confidante and lover - was never
properly rewarded, and died in loneliness, poverty, and obscurity,
the subject of several biographies and films, best known for her
sculptures including The Waltz and The Mature Age (d. October 19,
1943) is #born Camille Rosalie Claudel in Fere-en-Tardenois,
Aisne, Second French Empire in northern France, the first child of
a family of farmers and gentry. Claudel was a longtime associate
of sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the Musee Rodin in Paris has a room
dedicated to her works. The national Camille Claudel Museum in
Nogent-sur-Seine opened in 2017. Sculptures created by Claudel are
also held in the collections of several major museums including
the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Courtauld Institute of Art in
London, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,
D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum
in Los Angeles. Camille Claudel dies aged 78 after having lived 30
years in the asylum at Montfavet (known then as the Asile de
Montdevergues, now the modern psychiatric hospital Centre
hospitalier de Montfavet), Vaucluse, Vichy France Her brother Paul
had been informed of his sister's terminal illness in September
and, with some difficulty, had crossed Occupied France to see her,
although he was not present at her death or funeral. Her sister
did not make the journey to Montfavet. Claudel was interred in the
cemetery of Montfavet, and eventually her remains were buried in a
communal grave at the asylum. It is believed that Henrik Ibsen
based his last play, 1899's When We Dead Awaken, on Rodin's
relationship with Claudel. For some time, the press accused her
family of committing a sculptor of genius. Her mother forbade her
to receive mail from anyone other than her brother. The hospital
staff regularly proposed to her family that Claudel be released,
but her mother adamantly refused each time. On June 1, 1920,
physician Dr. Brunet sent a letter advising her mother to try to
reintegrate her daughter into the family environment. Nothing came
of this. Paul Claudel visited his confined older sister seven
times in 30 years, in 1913, 1920, 1925, 1927, 1933, 1936, and
1943. He always referred to her in the past tense. Their sister
Louise visited her just one time in 1929. Her mother, who died in
June 1929, never visited Claudel. In 1929 sculptor and Claudel's
former friend Jessie Lipscomb visited her, and afterwards insisted
"it was not true" that Claudel was insane. Rodin's
friend, Mathias Morhardt, insisted that Paul was a "simpleton"
who had "shut away" his sister of genius. Camille
Claudel died aged 78 after having lived 30 years in the asylum.
Her brother Paul had been informed of his sister's terminal
illness in September and, with some difficulty, had crossed
Occupied France to see her, although he was not present at her
death or funeral. Her sister did not make the journey to
Montfavet. Claudel was interred in the cemetery of Montfavet, and
eventually her remains were buried in a communal grave at the
asylum. It is believed that Henrik Ibsen based his last play,
1899's When We Dead Awaken, on Rodin's relationship with Claudel.
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Diego
Rivera, Mexican painter, educator and phony Rosicrucian, whose
large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and
international art (d. November 24, 1957) is #born Diego Maria de
la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos
Acosta y Rodriguez in Guanajuato, Mexico as one of twin boys to
Maria del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta, a well-to-do
couple. His twin brother Carlos died two years after they were
born. They were said to have Converso ancestry (Spanish ancestors
who were forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism in the 15th
and 16th centuries). Rivera wrote in 1935: "My Jewishness is
the dominant element in my life." Rivera began drawing at the
age of three, a year after his twin brother died. When he was
caught drawing on the walls of the house, his parents installed
chalkboards and canvas on the walls to encourage him. Between 1922
and 1953, Rivera painted murals in, among other places, Mexico
City, Chapingo, and Cuernavaca, Mexico; he also created large
works for display in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City
which aroused controversy due to his political point of view as a
Communist. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was
held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; this was before he
completed his 27-mural series known as Detroit Industry Murals,
which had been criticized as irreligious. In 1933, his fresco Man
at the Crossroads was removed from Rockefeller Center in New York
City amid claims it included a figure resembling Soviet leader
Vladimir Lenin. Following these controversies, he was denied
further commissions in the U.S., although his work remained
popular in Mexico. Rivera had numerous marriages and children,
including at least one natural daughter. His first child and only
son died at the age of two. His fourth wife was fellow Mexican
artist Frida Kahlo, with whom he had a volatile relationship that
continued until her death. He was married a fifth time, to his
agent. Rivera was an atheist. His mural Dreams of a Sunday in the
Alameda depicted Ignacio Ramirez holding a sign that read, "God
does not exist". This work caused a furor, but Rivera refused
to remove the inscription. The painting was not shown for nine
years - until Rivera agreed to remove the inscription. He stated:
"To affirm 'God does not exist', I do not have to hide behind
Don Ignacio Ramirez; I am an atheist and I consider religions to
be a form of collective neurosis." Desipte his dec;ared
atheism, Rivera became a member in 1926 of AMORC, the Ancient
Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, an occult organization founded by
American occultist Harvey Spencer Lewis. In 1926, Rivera was among
the founders of AMORC's Mexico City lodge, called Quetzalcoatl
after an ancient indigenous god. He painted an image of
Quetzalcoatl for the local temple. In 1954, Rivera tried to be
readmitted into the Mexican Communist Party. He had been expelled
in part because of his support of Trotsky, who had been exiled and
assassinated years before in Mexico. Rivera was required to
justify his AMORC activities. At the time, the Mexican Communist
Party excluded persons involved in Freemasonry, and regarded AMORC
as suspiciously similar to Freemasonry. Rivera told his
questioners that, by joining AMORC, he wanted to infiltrate a
typical "Yankee" organization on behalf of Communism.
However, he also claimed that AMORC was "essentially
materialist, insofar as it only admits different states of energy
and matter, and is based on ancient Egyptian occult knowledge from
Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti." Diego Rivera died of heart
failure aged of 70 in Mexico City, where he is buried at the
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December 8, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Sammy
Davis, Jr., African American actor, singer, comedian and dancer,
noted for his impressions of actors, musicians and other
celebrities (d. May 16, 1990) is #born Samuel George Davis Jr., in
the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of
African American entertainer and stage performer Sammy Davis Sr.
(1900-1988) and tap dancer and stage performer Elvera Sanchez
(1905-2000). During his lifetime, Davis stated that his mother was
Puerto Rican and born in San Juan. However, in the 2003 biography
In Black and White, author Wil Haygood wrote that Davis's mother
was born in New York City to Cuban parents who were of Afro-Cuban
background, and that Davis claimed he was Puerto Rican because he
feared anti-Cuban backlash would hurt his record sales. Davis's
parents were vaudeville dancers. As an infant, he was reared by
his paternal grandmother. When he was three years old, his parents
separated. His father, not wanting to lose custody of his son,
took him on tour. Davis learned to dance from his father and his
godfather Will Mastin. At the age of three, Davis began his career
in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin
Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis
returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation
following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood)
after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a
recording artist. In 1954, he lost his left eye in a car accident,
and several years later, he converted to Judaism. Davis' film
career began as a child in 1933. In 1960, he appeared in the Rat
Pack film Ocean's 11. After a starring role on Broadway in Mr
Wonderful (1956), he returned to the stage in 1964's Golden Boy.
In 1966 he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr.
Show. Davis' career slowed in the late 1960s, but he had a hit
record with "The Candy Man" in 1972 and became a star in
Las Vegas, earning him the nickname "Mister Show Business".
Davis was a victim of racism throughout his life, particularly
during the pre-Civil Rights era, and was a large financial
supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Davis had a complex
relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after
publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972 (although he
later returned to being a Democrat). One day on a golf course with
Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?"
he asked. "Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew."
This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his
autobiography, and in countless articles. After reuniting with
Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza
Minnelli internationally, before his death from complications from
throat cancer at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on May 16,
1990, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
Glendale, California. On May 18, 1990, two days after his death,
the neon lights of the Las Vegas Strip were darkened for ten
minutes as a tribute. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue
Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles. Davis
was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for
a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his television
performances. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in
1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Maximilian
Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. February 1, 2014) is #born in Vienna, Austria, the son of
Margarethe (nee Noe Von Nordberg), an actress who ran an acting
school, and Hermann Ferdinand Schell, a Swiss poet, novelist,
playwright and pharmacy owner, with whom he grew up surrounded by
acting and literature. Maximilian Schell wrote, directed and
produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best
Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second
acting role in Hollywood. While he was a child, his family fled to
Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and
they settled in Zurich. After World War II ended, Schell took up
acting or directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German
films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood. Schell was
top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films, as he could speak
both English and German. Among those were two films for which he
received Oscar nominations: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975; best
actor), where he played a character with two identities, and Julia
(1977; best supporting actor), where he helps the underground in
Nazi Germany. His range of acting went beyond German characters,
however; and during his career, he also played personalities as
diverse as Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar, Russian emperor Peter
The Great, and scientist Albert Einstein. For his role as Vladimir
Lenin in the television film Stalin (1992) he won the Golden Globe
Award. On stage, Schell acted in a number of plays, and his was
considered "one of the greatest Hamlets ever." In
Schell's private life, he was an accomplished pianist and
conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein,
and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister, Maria
Schell, was also a noted Hollywood actress, about whom he produced
the documentary My Sister Maria, in 2002. Maximilian Schell died
at the age of 83 in Innsbruck, Austria, after a "sudden and
serious illness". The German television news service
Tagesschau reported that he had been receiving treatment for
pneumonia. He is buried in Preitenegg/Carinthia (Austria) where
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December 8, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Flip
Wilson, African American comedian and actor best known for his
television appearances during the late 1960s and the 1970s (d.
November 25, 1998) is #born Clerow Wilson Jr. in Jersey City, New
Jersey. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety
series, The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his
recurring character Geraldine. The series earned Wilson a Golden
Globe and two Emmy Awards, and at one point was the second highest
rated show on network television. Wilson was the first African
American to host a successful variety TV show. (Sammy Davis Jr.
had had a short-lived variety show in 1966). In January 1972, Time
magazine featured Wilson's image on its cover and named him "TV's
first black superstar". Wilson released a number of comedy
albums in the 1960s and 70s, and won a Grammy Award for his 1970
album The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress. After The Flip Wilson Show
ended, Wilson kept performing and acting until the 1990s, though
at a reduced schedule. He hosted a short-lived revival of People
are Funny in 1984, and had the lead role in the 1985-1986 sitcom
Charlie and Co. Flip Wilson died of liver cancer in Malibu,
California, aged 64. His cremated remains were interred at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Toots
Hibbert, African Jamaican reggae pioneer, singer and songwriter
who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots And
The Maytals (d. September 11, 2020) is #born Frederick Nathaniel
Hibbert in May Pen, the capital and largest town in the parish of
Clarendon in Middlesex County, Jamaica. Frederick Nathaniel
Hibbert OJ performed for six decades and helped establish some of
the fundamentals of reggae music. Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the
Reggay" is widely credited as the genesis of the genre name
reggae. His band's album True Love won a Grammy Award in 2005.
Hibbert also appeared in the groundbreaking Jamaican film The
Harder They Come, in which his band sings "Sweet and Dandy".
The film's soundtrack included the Maytals' 1969 hit song
"Pressure Drop". The Harder They Come features fellow
musician and actor Jimmy Cliff in the leading role as Ivan, a
character whose story resembles Hibbert's. Toots Hibbert died in a
medically induced coma of COVID-19 at the University Hospital of
the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 77. The
following day, a statement on the band's Facebook page announced
that he had died. On Sunday Novebmer 15, 20220 he was buried next
to follow Reggae singer Dennis Brown at National Heroes Park
(formerly King George VI Memorial Park) in Kingston, Jamaica
following the intervention of Jamaican Culture Minister Olivia
Grange after a family dispute scuttled interment after his funeral
in October. Chris Blackwell had a strong commitment to Toots And
The Maytals, saying "I've known Toots longer than anybody -
much longer than Bob [Marley]. Toots is one of the purest human
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim
Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet, best remembered as
the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors (d. July 3, 1971) is
#born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida. Due to his
poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, wild personality, performances,
and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early
death, James Douglas Morrison is regarded by music critics and
fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock
music history. Since his death, his fame has endured as one of
popular culture's most rebellious and oft-displayed icons,
representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. Together
with Ray Manzarek, Morrison co-founded the Doors during the summer
of 1965 in Venice, California. The band spent two years in
obscurity until shooting to prominence with their #1 single in the
United States, "Light My Fire," taken from their
self-titled debut album. Morrison wrote or co-wrote many of the
Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Break
On Through (To the Other Side)," "The End,"
"Moonlight Drive," "People are Strange",
"Hello, I Love You," "Roadhouse Blues," "L.A.
Woman," and "Riders on the Storm." Morrison
recorded a total of six studio albums with the Doors, all of which
sold well and received critical acclaim. Though the Doors recorded
two more albums after Morrison died, his death severely affected
the band's fortunes, and they split up in 1973. In 1993, Jim
Morrison, as a member of the Doors, was inducted into The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame. Morrison was also well known for improvising
spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Ray
Manzarek, who co-founded the Doors with him, said Morrison
"embodied hippie counterculture rebellion." Morrison
developed an alcohol dependency during the 1960s, which at times
affected his performances on stage. He died under mysterious
circumstances at the age of 27 in Paris, France. He is buried in
Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, with a sandbox in front of his
tombstone. As no autopsy was performed, the cause of Morrison's
death remains unknown. His premature death is often linked with
the 27 Club, an informal list consisting mostly of popular
musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age
27 (Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison,
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse). After
recording L.A. Woman with the Doors in Los Angeles, Morrison
announced to the band his intention to go to Paris. His bandmates
generally felt it was a good idea. In March 1971, he joined
girlfriend Pamela Courson in Paris at an apartment she had rented
at 17-19, Rue Beautreillis in Le Marais, 4th arrondissement. In
letters to friends, he described going for long walks through the
city alone. During this time, he shaved his beard and lost some of
the weight he had gained in the previous months. He also
telephoned John Densmore to ask him how L.A. Woman was doing
commercially; he was the last band member to ever speak with him.
Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of the apartment at
approximately 6:00 a.m. by Courson. The official cause of death
was listed as heart failure,although no autopsy was performed as
it was not required by French law. Manzarek writes that Courson
said Morrison's last words, as he was bathing, were, "Pam,
are you still there?" Several individuals who say they were
eyewitnesses, including Marianne Faithfull, claim that his death
was due to an accidental heroin overdose. But due to the lack of
autopsy, their statements could not be confirmed. According to
music journalist Ben Fong-Torres, it was suggested that his death
was kept a secret and the reporters who had telephoned Paris were
told that Morrison was not deceased but tired and resting at a
hospital. Morrison's friend, film director Agnes Varda, admitted
that she was the one who was responsible for hiding the incident
from becoming public. In her last media interview before her death
in 2019, Varda confirmed that she was one of the only four
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December 8, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Gregg
Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. May 27, 2017)
is #born Gregory LeNoir Allman at Saint Thomas Hospital in
Nashville, Tennessee. He was known for performing in the Allman
Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues
music, and the Allman Brothers Band fused it with rock music,
jazz, and country at times. He wrote several of the band's biggest
songs, including "Whipping Post", "Melissa",
and "Midnight Rider". Allman also had a successful solo
career, releasing seven studio albums. He was born and spent much
of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to
Daytona Beach, Florida and then Richmond Hill, Georgia. He and his
brother, Duane Allman, formed the Allman Brothers Band in 1969,
which reached mainstream success with their 1971 live album At
Fillmore East. Shortly thereafter, Duane was killed in a
motorcycle crash. The band continued, with Brothers and Sisters
(1973) their most successful album. Allman began a solo career
with Laid Back the same year, and was perhaps most famous for his
marriage to pop star Cher for the rest of the decade. He had an
unexpected late career hit with his cover of the song "I'm No
Angel" in 1987, and his seventh solo album, Low Country Blues
(2011), saw the highest chart positions of his career. Throughout
his life, Allman struggled with alcohol and substance abuse, which
formed the basis of his memoir My Cross to Bear (2012). His final
album, Southern Blood, was released posthumously on September 8,
2017. Allman performed with a Hammond organ and guitar, and was
recognized for his soulful voice. For his work in music, Allman
was referred to as a Southern rock pioneer and received numerous
awards, including one Grammy Award; he was inducted into The Rock
And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. His
distinctive voice placed him in 70th place in the Rolling Stone
list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Gregg
Allman died at his home in Richmond Hill, Georgia due to
complications from liver cancer at the age of 69. His funeral took
place at Snow's Memorial Chapel in Macon on June 3, and was
attended by once-estranged bandmate Dickey Betts, his ex-wife
Cher, and former President Jimmy Carter, among others. According
to Rolling Stone, the mourners dressed casually in jeans per
Allman's request, and "hundreds of fans, many wearing Allman
Brothers shirts and listening to the band's music, lined the route
along the funeral procession." He was buried at Rose Hill
Cemetery in Macon, beside his brother Duane, and fellow band
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December 8, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert
Henry Lawrence Jr., United States Air Force officer and the first
African-American astronaut (b. October 2, 1935) #dies when he is
killed in a plane crash at Edwards AFB, aged 32. He was flying
backseat in an F-104 as the instructor pilot for flight test
trainee Major Harvey Royer, who was learning the steep-descent
glide technique. Royer made such an approach but flared too late.
The airplane struck the ground hard, its main gear failed, it
caught fire, and rolled. The canopy shattered and the plane
bounced and skidded on the runway for 2,000 feet (610 m). Major
Royer ejected upward and survived, with major injuries. The back
seat, which delays a moment to avoid hitting the front seat,
ejected sideways, killing Lawrence instantly. He was still
strapped to his ejector seat; his parachute failed to open and was
dragged 75 feet (23 m) from the wreck. Had Lawrence lived, he
likely would have been among the MOL astronauts who became NASA
Astronaut Group 7 after MOL's cancellation, all of whom flew on
the Space Shuttle. He is buried at Graceland Cemetery in his
hometown of Chicago. During his brief career, Lawrence earned the
Air Force Commendation Medal, the Outstanding Unit Citation. On
December 8, 1997, his name was inscribed on the Space Mirror
Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A sidewalk plaque
honoring Lawrence, part of the Bronzeville Walk of Fame, can be
found in his home town of Chicago, near the Victory Memorial on
the median of Martin Luther King Drive near 35th Street. The 13th
Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, which launched on February 15,
2020, was named the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence in his honor. The
artist Tavares Strachan dedicated his satellite sculpture ENOCH,
launched in 2018, to Lawrence. In 2020, NASA included Lawrence in
a group of 27 pioneering African-American, Hispanic, and Native
American astronauts to commemorate by naming asteroids after them.
The asteroid, Robertlawrence 92892, is located in the main
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In 2024, his alma mater,
Bradley University, announced an art installation commemorating
Lawrence to be installed February 2025. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he was raised. Lawrence
attended Haines Elementary School and, at age sixteen, graduated
in the top 10 percent from Englewood High School in 1952. Four
years later in 1956, he graduated from Bradley University with a
Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. At Bradley, Lawrence
became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity and distinguished
himself as Cadet Commander in the Air Force ROTC and received the
commission of second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve Program.
At the age of 21, he was designated as a U.S. Air Force pilot
after completing flight training at Malden Air Force Base,
Missouri. At 22, he married Barbara Cress, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Henry Cress of Chicago. By the time he was 25, he had
completed an Air Force assignment as an instructor pilot in the
T-33 training aircraft for the German Air Force. In 1965, Lawrence
earned a PhD in physical chemistry from Ohio State University. He
was a senior USAF pilot, accumulating well over 2,500 flight
hours, 2,000 of which were in jets. Lawrence flew many tests in
the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter to investigate the gliding flight
of various unpowered spacecraft returning to Earth from orbit,
such as the North American X-15 rocket-plane. NASA cited Lawrence
for accomplishments and flight maneuver data that "contributed
greatly to the development of the Space Shuttle." In June
1967, Lawrence successfully completed the U.S. Air Force Test
Pilot School (Class 66B) at Edwards AFB, California. The same
month, he was selected by the USAF as an astronaut in the Air
Force's Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program, thus becoming the
country's first black astronaut. Lawrence and other MOL astronauts
laughed when asked at the announcement "Will you have to sit
in the back seat of the capsule?" When asked if his selection
was historic for race relations in the United States, Lawrence
answered "No, I don't think so. It's another one of those
things that we look forward to in civil rights -- normal
progression." He said that he had faced problems like other
black people, but, "Perhaps I have been more fortunate than
the others in the opportunities." Donald H. Peterson, chosen
for MOL with Lawrence, said, "I can't speak for all the
people in Mississippi," but that he was not reluctant to work
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Today, December 8, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: I was one of the
mourners who stood in the rain in front of The Dakota on December
9, 1980 in honor of his death the day prior. I left a note in the
gate of The Dakota as many others did, thanking him for so gracing
my life; he was, after all, my primary role model during my rock &
roll guitar playing teenage years. I'll never forget the
experience of seeing a sea of umbrellas (appropriate since he was
English) spread out on the rain-soaked streets in front The
Dakota, looking like lily pads, with each harboring beneath them
mourners with radios playing songs they all sang along to, oddly
reminiscent of the sing-alongs of The Beatles cartoon TV series;
my bandmate Eric and I floated from umbrella to umbrella to find a
radio playing a song we felt most fit to sing along to at that
moment; a transfiguring moment in time, one I will never forget,
and an experience that will never again be repeated in the lives
of those who lived it... ) ========= December 8, 1980: #DOTD:
#RIP: The Murder Of John Lennon: -- John Lennon, English singer,
songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide
fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm
guitarist of the Beatles, the influential rock group and most
successful entertainment act in history, captivating audiences
first in England and Germany, and later in America and throughout
the world (b. October 9, 1940) #dies when he is assassinated in
New York City in the archway in front of The Dakota apartment
building where he resided by Mark David Chapman, an American
Beatles fan who was incensed by Lennon's lavish lifestyle and his
1966 comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus".
Chapman said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden
Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher In The Rye, a
"phony-killer" who despises hypocrisy. Chapman planned
the killing over several months and waited for Lennon at the
Dakota on the morning of 8 December. Early in the evening, Chapman
met Lennon, who signed his copy of the album Double Fantasy and
subsequently left for a recording session at the Record Plant.
Later that night, Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned to the
Dakota. As Lennon and Ono approached the entrance of the building,
Chapman fired five hollow-point bullets from a .38 special
revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back. Chapman remained
at the scene reading The Catcher In The Rye until he was arrested
by the police. Lennon was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital in a police
car, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m., but
the time of 11:07 p.m. has also been reported. WABC-TV producer
Alan Weiss was laid up on a gurney at Manhattan's Roosevelt
Hospital, having just been knocked off his motorcycle by a taxi
and recovering from hip surgery. As he waited for treatment, Weiss
peered into the next room to see a group of doctors feverishly
working on Lennon - one even had his hands inside the patient's
chest cavity. At the moment Lennon was pronounced dead, Weiss
heard Yoko scream "Oh no!" and cry piteously as the
Beatles song "All My Loving" came over the hospital's
sound system, with the words "Close your eyes, and I'll kiss
you, tomorrow I'll miss you". Weiss called the WABC-TV
newsroom and reported Lennon's death; immediately following,
WABC's Howard Cosell gave the first report of his death in the
final seconds of regulation of a Miami Dolphins-New England
Patriots game while hosting "Monday Night Football".
Lennon's body was then taken to the city morgue at 520 First
Avenue for an autopsy. The cause of death was reported on his
death certificate as "hypovolemic shock, caused by the loss
of more than 80% of blood volume due to multiple
through-and-through gunshot wounds to the left shoulder and left
chest resulting in damage to the left lung, the left subclavian
artery, and both the aorta and aortic arch". According to the
report, even with prompt medical treatment, no person could have
lived for more than a few minutes with multiple bullet wounds
affecting all of the major arteries and veins around the heart.
The following day, Lennon's remains were cremated at Ferncliff
Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, and his ashes were scattered in
Central Park, in an area where Lennon had frequently walked
directly across from and in sight of The Dakota, a site that New
York City since dedicated as Strawberry Fields; in a symbolic show
of unity, countries from around the world donated trees, and the
city of Naples, Italy, donated its Imagine mosaic centerpiece. In
lieu of a funeral, Ono requested 10 minutes of silence around the
world. Following news of his death, a worldwide outpouring of
grief ensued; crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front
of the Dakota, and at least three Beatles fans died by suicide.
Chapman later pleaded guilty to murdering Lennon and was given a
sentence of 20-years-to-life imprisonment. He has been denied
parole every time he has come before the parole boad since he
became eligible in 2000, most recently in May of 2024. John
Winston Ono Lennon was born John Winston Lennon in Liverpool,
England; his first son, Sean Lennon, British-American singer,
songwriter, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, drummer, omnichordist
and record producer was born on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th
birthday. #JohnLennon #TheBeatles #Beatles #FabFour #TheQuarrymen
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1987: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Arms Control: Nuclear Arms Control: The
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (The INF Treaty): --
President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev
sign in the White House the INF Treaty, eliminating all
intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear missiles. The INF
Treaty, formally the Treaty Between the United States of America
and the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of
Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, was an arms
control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and
its successor state, the Russian Federation. The United States
Senate approved the treaty on 27 May 1988, and Reagan and
Gorbachev ratified it on 1 June 1988. The INF Treaty banned all of
the two nations' land-based ballistic missiles, cruise missiles,
and missile launchers with ranges of 500-1,000 kilometers (310-620
mi) (short medium-range) and 1,000-5,500 km (620-3,420 mi)
(intermediate-range). The treaty did not apply to air- or
sea-launched missiles. By May 1991, the nations had eliminated
2,692 missiles, followed by 10 years of on-site verification
inspections. Amidst continuing growth of China's missile forces,
US President Donald Trump announced on 20 October 2018 that he was
withdrawing the US from the treaty due to Russian non-compliance.
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of
1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist
Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Belavezha Accords: -- The USSR (Union
Of Soviet Socialist Republics) ceases to exist, as the leaders of
Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine sign an agreement creating the
Commonwealth of Independent States. The remaining republics, with
the exception of Georgia, joined the new Commonwealth. The
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (Russian: Sodruzhestvo
Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv; Initialism: SNG) is a regional
intergovernmental organization of nine (originally ten) members,
plus two founding non-member, post-Soviet republics in Eurasia. It
was formed following the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union in 1991.
It covers an area of 20,368,759 km2 (7,864,422 sq mi) and has an
estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages
cooperation in economic, political and military affairs and has
certain powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance,
lawmaking, and security. It has also promoted cooperation on
cross-border crime prevention. The CIS has its origins with the
Russian Empire, which was replaced in 1917 by the Russian Republic
after the February Revolution earlier that year. Following the
October Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic became the leading republic in the Soviet Union (USSR)
upon its creation with the 1922 Treaty and Declaration of the
Creation of the USSR along with Byelorussian SSR and Ukrainian
SSR. When the USSR began to fall in 1991, the founding republics
signed the Belavezha Accords on December 8, 1991, declaring that
the Soviet Union would cease to exist and proclaimed the CIS in
its place. A few days later the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed,
which declared that the Soviet Union was dissolved and that the
Russian Federation was to be its successor state. The Baltic
states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which regard their
membership in the Soviet Union as an illegal occupation, chose not
to participate. Georgia withdrew its membership in 2008. Ukraine
ended its participation in CIS statutory bodies on May 19, 2018.
Eight of the nine CIS member states participate in the CIS Free
Trade Area. Three organisations are under the overview of the CIS,
namely the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Eurasian
Economic Union (alongside subdivisions, the Eurasian Customs Union
and the Eurasian Economic Space, which comprises territory
inhabited by over 180 million people); and the Union State. While
the first and the second are military and economic alliances, the
third aims to reach a supranational union of Russia and Belarus
with a common government, flag, currency and so on. Several
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Today, December 8, 2025
December 8: Pretend To Be A Time Traveler
Day: -- If you've ever noticed any unusual characters on this
date, now you know why! On this day of imagination and
time-hopping celebration we pretend that we can move across the
years and go wherever we want. Whether you're entertaining the
kids or looking to bring some creativity to your day, we have the
best ideas to make sure you don't get stuck in a wormhole. Time
travel is an important fixture in the science fiction we know and
love today, as well as a consideration for scientists trying to
crack its possibilities. But despite its appearance in numerous
movies, books and TV shows, it's a relatively new idea. The
earliest mentions of time travel were always about moving forward.
Texts like the Ancient Indian 'Mahabharata' used a version in
which people fell asleep or visited a god and when they regained
their senses found that they had jumped forward into the future.
It wasn't until 1895 when time travel became a two-way street,
with the publication of H. G. Wells' novel "The Time
Machine." The book popularized the notion of a vehicle
designed to transport its passengers forwards and backwards in
time. The book's protagonist travels to A.D. 802,701 and observes
the future of the human race, before returning to tell the tale to
his dinner guests. The movie adaptation was created in 1960, then
again in 2002 with Guy Pearce. Time travel stories became yet
again more complex in 1941 with Robert A Heinlen's short story "By
His Bootstraps" which showed the protagonist occupying
multiple time-frames at once through time travel, and therefore
intersecting with different versions of himself. Numerous other
new stories fascinated by the idea of moving through time and
space, including "Back to the Future", which exploded
onto screens in 1985. Meanwhile, in television, the BBC invented
"Doctor Who" and zapped it into homes around the UK in
1963. The show featured a professional time traveler - The Doctor
- and has enjoyed great success over the years with new
characters, storylines and universes. In 2018 Jodie Whitaker
became the first-ever woman to take on the role.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Donald K.
Ross, USN Warrant Officer Donald K. Ross, first Medal Of Honor
recipient of World War II (d. May 27, 1992) is #born Donald Kirby
Ross in Beverly, Kansas. On December 7, 1941, Donald K. Ross
earned the medal for his actions aboard the battleship USS Nevada
during the Attack On Pearl Harbor. Nevada was badly damaged by
bombs and torpedoes. Ross distinguished himself by assuming
responsibility to furnish power to get the ship underway - the
only battleship to do so during the Japanese attack. When the
forward dynamo room where he was stationed filled with smoke and
steam, he ordered his men to leave and continued servicing the
dynamo himself until being blinded and falling unconscious. Upon
being rescued and resuscitated, he went back to secure the forward
dynamo, then worked in the aft dynamo room until losing
consciousness a second time due to exhaustion. After waking, he
again returned to his duties until Nevada was beached. His actions
kept the ship under power, preventing it from sinking in the
channel and blocking other ships in the harbor. Despite his
impaired eyesight, Ross refused hospitalization and instead helped
with rescue efforts. He entered a hospital three days after the
attack, and his vision returned to normal after three weeks. He
returned to Nevada, December 17, 1941, remaining in the ship's
company for the duration of the war. Ross was promoted to chief
warrant machinist in March 1942 and was commissioned an ensign in
June 1942. Later in the war, he also served on Nevada during the
landings at Normandy and Southern France. He rose steadily in
temporary rank to lieutenant commander by the end of the war,
reverting to lieutenant at its conclusion. He again received
promotion to lieutenant commander in 1949 and to commander in
November 1954. Upon his retirement from active duty in July 1956,
after twenty-seven years' of service aboard every type of surface
ship then afloat, he was promoted to captain on the basis of his
combat awards. After leaving the Navy, Ross settled in Port
Orchard, Washington, and ran a dairy farm. He and his wife, Helen,
had four children: Fred, Robert, Penny, and Donna. He wrote a book
about his fellow Medal Of Honor recipients with ties to Washington
State, "Men Of Valor", published in 1980. Ross attended
50th Anniversary ceremonies at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1991,
during which, Ross was given the honor of introducing President
George H. W. Bush. Ross also participated in the dedication of a
memorial to his old ship, the USS Nevada. Ross died of a heart
attack in Bremerton, Washington at age 81. His ashes were
scattered at sea over the USS Nevada, which was was decommissioned
due to its age on August 29 1946, hit by the blast from atomic
bomb Able during the Operation Crossroads atomic experiments at
Bikini Atoll in July 1946, and sunk for naval gunfire practice on
July 31, 1948. In 1997, the guided-missile destroyer USS Ross
(DDG-71) was named in his honor.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: John
Glenn, United States Marine Corps colonel, aviator, World War II
and Korean War fighter pilot, engineer, astronaut, United States
Senator from Ohio, the first American to orbit the Earth, circling
it three times on February 20, 1962 (b. July 18, 1921) #dies at
the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center where he was being
treated at the James Cancer Hospitalaged 95 years old; neither his
illness nor his cause of death was disclosed. After his death, his
body lay in state at the Ohio Statehouse. There was a memorial
service at Mershon Auditorium at Ohio State University. Another
memorial service was performed at Kennedy Space Center near the
Heroes and Legends building. His body was interred at Arlington
National Cemetery on April 6, 2017. At the time of his death,
Glenn was the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven. He was
born John Herschel Glenn Jr. in Cambridge, Ohio. Before joining
NASA, John Glenn's distinguished career as a fighter pilot in
World War II and Korea earned him six Distinguished Flying Crosses
and eighteen Air Medals. In 1998, still a sitting senator, Glenn
was the oldest person to fly in space as a crew member of the
Discovery space shuttle and the only person to fly in both the
Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He received the Presidential
Medal Of Freedom in 2012.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1765: #BOTD: #HBD: Eli
Whitney, American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton
gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that
shaped the economy of the Antebellum South (d. January 8, 1825) is
#born Eli Whitney Jr. in Westborough, Massachusetts. Although
Whitney himself believed that his invention would reduce the need
for enslaved labor and help hasten the end of southern slavery,
Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable
crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the
United States and prolonged the institution. Despite the social
and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in
legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin.
Thereafter, he turned his attention into securing contracts with
the government in the manufacture of muskets for the newly formed
United States Army. He continued making arms and inventing until
his death of prostate cancer in New Haven, Connecticut, just a
month after his 59th birthday. He is buried at Grove Street
Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut. He left a widow and his four
children behind. One of his offspring, Eli Whitney III (known as
Eli Whitney Jr.), was instrumental in building New Haven,
Connecticut's waterworks. During the course of his illness, he
reportedly invented and constructed several devices to
mechanically ease his pain. The Eli Whitney Students Program, Yale
University's admissions program for non-traditional students, is
named in honor of Whitney, who not only began his studies there
when he was 23, but also went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa in
just three years.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1885: #DOTD: William Henry
Vanderbilt, American businessman, railroad magnate and
philanthropist (b. May 8, 1821) #dies aged 64 in Manhattan, New
York City of a stroke during an appointment with Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad president Robert Garrett. He is interred in the
Vanderbilt Family Mausoleum that he had commissioned in New Dorp
on Staten Island, New York. He inherited nearly 100M USD from his
father Cornelius nine years earlier; that fortune had doubled by
the time William died. His estate was divided among his eight
surviving children and his wife, the bulk of the estate going to
his eldest two sons, Cornelius and William. His youngest son
George inherited his Staten Island mansion and farm, which became
Miller Army Air Field, now known as Miller Army Air Field Historic
District, a United States Army facility in the neighborhood of New
Dorp, Staten Island, New York, founded in November 1919 and
completed in 1921; as of 2024, Miller Field is a part of the
Staten Island Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, which
is managed by the National Park Service. The park includes
baseball and soccer fields, and hosts the New York Philharmonic in
the summer. The field is directly east of New Dorp High School.
William Henry Vanderbilt was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and Sophia
Johnson. An heir to his father's fortune and a prominent member of
the Vanderbilt family, he was the richest man in America after he
took over his father's fortune in 1877, and remained so until his
own death.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1953: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism
In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In
The United States: Brown v. Board Of Education (Brown v. Board Of
Education Of Topeka): -- After the Supreme Court failed to come to
a decision on the case when it was first argued on December 9,
1952, the court had the case reargued, at the behest of Associate
Justice Felix Frankfurter, as a stalling tactic to allow the court
to gather a consensus around a Brown opinion that would outlaw
segregation, with special attention to whether the Fourteenth
Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibited the operation of
separate public schools for whites and blacks. Accordingly
Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). reargued the case
for the plaintiffs before the court. The justices in support of
desegregation spent much effort convincing those who initially
intended to dissent to join a unanimous opinion. Although the
legal effect would be same for a majority rather than unanimous
decision, it was felt that dissent could be used by segregation
supporters as a legitimizing counter-argument. The tactic worked,
and on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that U.S.
state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are
unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise
equal in quality.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World
War II: The Battle of Britain: Strategic Bombing During World War
II: European Air Operations During The Battle Of Europe: The
Blitz: -- The Palace Of Westminster, informally known as The
Houses Of Parliament, suffers considerable bomb damage as the 16th
century Cloister Court was hit, causing extensive damage to the
Members' Cloakroom, MPs' offices, staircases and the crypt,
demolishing the south and east sides of the Cloisters of St
Stephen's (also known as The Royal Chapel Of St Stephen) and
causing considerable damage to the other two sides. St Stephen's
Chapel, sometimes called the Royal Chapel of St Stephen, was a
chapel in the old Palace of Westminster which served as the
chamber of the House Of Commons of England and that of Great
Britain from 1547 to 1834. It was largely destroyed in the fire of
1834, but the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the crypt survived.
The present-day St Stephen's Hall and its porch, which are within
the new Palace of Westminster built in the 19th century, stand on
exactly the same site and are today accessed through the St
Stephen's Entrance, the public entrance of the House Of Commons.
The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the
House Of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of The
Parliament Of The United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses
of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the north
bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1953: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Nuclear History Of The United States:
Project Candor (Operation Candor): Atoms For Peace: -- U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms For Peace"
speech to the UN General Assembly in New York City. The United
States then launched an Atoms For Peace Program that supplied
equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research
institutions within the U.S. and throughout the world. Project
Candor or Operation Candor was a public relations campaign run by
the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower to inform the U.S.
public of the facts as to the armaments race and the government's
official analysis of those facts. The Atoms For Peace Project was
a part of Project Candor; whereas Project Candor was intended to
be aimed more at the U.S. public, the Atoms For Peace Program was
a global campaign aimed at convincing the world opinion that the
U.S. was more interested in peace than in war. The first nuclear
reactors in Israel and Pakistan in Islamabad were built under the
Atoms For Peace Program by American Machine And Foundry, a company
more commonly known as a major manufacturer of bowling equipment.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1941: #BOTD: Duke Cunningham,
American commander, politician and jerk (d. August 27, 2025) is
#born Randall Harold Cunningham in Los Angeles, California, the
day after the Attack On Pearl Harbor. Commonly known as either
Randy or Duke, he and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) William P.
"Irish" Driscoll became the only navy flying aces of the
Vietnam War, recording five aerial victories against North
Vietnamese MiG-21 and MiG-17 aircraft between January and May
1972, including three kills in one flight (earning them the Navy
Cross). He was one of the most highly decorated United States Navy
pilots in the Vietnam War, receiving the Navy Cross once, the
Silver Star twice, the Air Medal 15 times, and the Purple Heart.
Following the war, Cunningham became an instructor at the U.S.
Navy's Fighter Weapons School, better known as TOPGUN, and
commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 126 (VF-126), a shore-based
adversary squadron at NAS Miramar, California. Cunningham resigned
from the House on November 28, 2005, after pleading guilty to
accepting at least 2.4M USD in bribes and under-reporting his
taxable income for 2004. He pleaded guilty to federal charges of
tax evasion, and conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, and
wire fraud. He was sentenced to eight years and four months in
prison and was ordered to pay 1.8M USD in restitution. On June 4,
2013, Cunningham completed his prison sentence; he now lives in
Arkansas. In a 1995 exchange, in which former Representative Duke
Cunningham told Bernie Sanders to "sit down, you socialist"
after Sanders objected to a homophobic comment Cunningham made,
Democratic representative from Colorado Pat Schroeder asked
"Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman - do we have to call the
Gentleman a gentleman if he's not one?" Duke Cunningham died
in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 83. His burial details are
not publicly disclosed.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank
Faylen, American film and television actor, bit player and
character actor, he occasionally played more fleshed-out
supporting roles during his forty-two year acting career, during
which he appeared in some 223 film and television productions,
often without credit, best known as the long-suffering grocer
Herbert T. Gillis, the father of the title character on the
1950s-'60s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and
as Bert Hollinger in the ABC comedy That Girl (d. August 2, 1985)
is #born Charles Francis Ruf in St. Louis, Missouri, Faylen began
his acting career as an infant appearing with his
vaudeville-performing parents on stage. The family lived on a
showboat, and performed throughout his youth. He has a star at
6201 Hollywood Boulevard in the Television section of the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.
Faylen was married to actress Carol Hughes, best remembered for
her leading roles opposite Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and for her
role as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Their
two daughters, Catherine and Carol, are retired actresses.
Catherine "Kay" Faylen was Regis Philbin's first wife.
Faylen died from pneumonia in Burbank, California, aged 79. He is
interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills,
Los Angeles, California.
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Today, December 8, 2025December 8, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Golda
Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator, kibbutznik, stateswoman and
politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. May 3, 1898) #dies of
lymphatic cancer (lymphoma) in Jerusalem at the age of 80. She is
buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Golda Meir was born Golda
Mabovitch in Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). She was
one of the founders of the modern state of Israel. She emigrated
to the United States as an eight-year-old child with her family in
1906, and was educated there, becoming a teacher. After marrying,
she and her husband immigrated to then Mandatory Palestine in
1921, settling on a kibbutz. Meir was elected prime minister of
Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and
Foreign Minister. The world's fourth and Israel's first and only
woman to hold the office, she has been described as the "Iron
Lady" of Israeli politics; the term was later applied to
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the
government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed,
straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people."
Meir resigned as prime minister in 1974, the year following the
Yom Kippur War.
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