{"id":23328,"date":"2023-12-08T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:27:39","slug":"history-of-8-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; Americans got to see live television coverage of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops landing on the beaches of Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. (Due to the time difference, it was December 9 in Somalia.)<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; Bosnian Serbs released dozens of hostage peacekeepers, but continued to detain about 300 others.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; In Los Angeles, 12 alternate jurors were chosen for the O.J. Simpson murder trial.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; The second largest bank was created with the announcement that Union Bank Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation would merge. The combined assets were more than $590 billion.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; Jenny Shipley was sworn in as the first female prime minister of New Zealand.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The FBI opened its files on Frank Sinatra to the public. The file contained over 1,300 pages.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi&#8217;s first of eight babies was born. The other seven were delivered 12 days later.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; AT&amp;T Corp. announced that it was buying IBM&#8217;s data networking business for $5 billion cash.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The first female ice hockey game in Olympic history was played. Finland beat Sweden 6-0.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; In Memphis, TN, a jury found that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; Russia and Belarus agreed in principle to form an economic and political confederation.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; Mario Lemieux announced to the Pittsburgh Penguins that he planned to return to the\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0as a player at age 35. He would be the first modern owner-player in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0pro sports.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2004\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Cusco Declaration\u00a0is signed in\u00a0Cusco,\u00a0Peru, establishing the\u00a0South American Community of Nations.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bombings\u00a0in\u00a0Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.<\/li>\r\n<li>2010 \u2013 With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.<\/li>\r\n<li>2010 \u2013 The Japanese\u00a0solar-sail\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0IKAROS\u00a0passes the planet\u00a0Venus\u00a0at a distance of about 80,800\u00a0km.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Riots break out\u00a0in\u00a0Singapore\u00a0after a fatal accident in\u00a0Little India.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013 \u2013\u00a0Metallica\u00a0performs a show in\u00a0Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019 \u2013 First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating BIrthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Simon Finnigan, English rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Philip Rivers, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Serena Ryder, Canadian singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Chrisette Michele, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Neel Jani, Swiss race car driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Val\u00e9ry M\u00e9zague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Greg Halford, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Dwight Howard, American basketball player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/December_8#cite_note-24\">\\<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Amir Khan, English boxer<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Sam Tagataese, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yui Yokoyama, Japanese idol, model, and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Janari J\u00f5esaar, Estonian basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0Jordan Obita, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0AnnaSophia Robb, American actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0Cara Mund,\u00a0Miss America 2018<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013 Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Raheem Sterling, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 \u2013 Scott McTominay, Scottish footballer<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 &#8211; Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional. 1992 &#8211; Americans got to see live television coverage of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops landing on the beaches of Somalia during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1471],"class_list":{"0":"post-23328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-8-december"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-64g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24096,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23328\/revisions\/24096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}